Einstein and Oppenheimer talking in Oppenheimer movie
Tom Conti as Albert Einstein and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer."
  • Albert Einstein plays a significant role in the Christopher Nolan film, "Oppenheimer."
  • In reality, Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer knew each other but weren't friends until much later.
  • The real Einstein wouldn't have helped Oppenheimer with top-secret calculations about the atomic bomb.

For someone who wasn't involved in the race to develop the first atomic bomb, Albert Einstein plays a surprisingly significant role in the Christopher Nolan film "Oppenheimer."