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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

(JTA) – “Oppenheimer,” the hotly ... on his own scientific equations. Einstein was later barred from participating in the actual Manhattan Project as his left-leaning politics were enough ...

Einstein was of course a pacifist, but he was also a Jew in 1930's Germany so knew exactly the evil that the Nazis were capable of. Although he never worked on Project Manhattan himself ...

"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 ...

Oppenheimer, who died in 1967, led the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The theoretical physicist was later accused of ...