Live with lightning

The most famous novel by Mitchell Wilson, into which the author invested a lot of personal and autobiographical elements.
One of the main books of the 20th century dedicated to science and its faithful knights.

Eric Gorin is a passionate fanatic of... physics, ready to reject both an easy university career and a comfortable life as a scientist who has dedicated his talent to industry for it. Let others chase after money and fame, combine scientific work with social entertainment, or sacrifice it for the sake of family well-being!
However, when he truly finds himself among nuclear physicists, fate presents Gorin with a cruel surprise, bringing him into the "Manhattan Project": what he dreamed of giving to humanity as an inexhaustible source of energy turned into a weapon of mass destruction of unprecedented power. But does the scientist bear responsibility for how others have dealt with his invention?..