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- 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."