"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 ...

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 ...

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

J. Robert Oppenheimer During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, where he led the effort to develop the world’s first nuclear weapons. Latest ...