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'Oppenheimer' doesn't get Einstein's relationship with the Los Alamos director quite right. Here's what they really thought of each other.
In reality, Oppenheimer consulted Arthur Compton, who was directing the University of Chicago efforts of the Manhattan Project. "I shifted that to Einstein," Nolan told the Times. "Einstein is the ...
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'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an immensely complex figure, ... As the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory in the 1940s, the physicist is known as the "father of the atomic bomb." ...
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The Jewish story behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ explained
Here’s a primer on his Jewish story, the other Jewish characters he met while developing the Manhattan Project and ... an account of Oppenheimer running into Albert Einstein, one of the most ...
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The remarkable story of the world's first atomic bomb and how Oppenheimer reacted to the historic moment
"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...