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'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian

Fri, 03/08/2024 - 16:34

J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom. — J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.
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Oppenheimer's famous quote 'I am become Death' isn't really his. The ominous words come from Hindu scripture.

Fri, 02/16/2024 - 16:19

J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom. — J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.

Fri, 02/16/2024 - 15:23

Nobel Prize winners Ernest Lawrence Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Isaac Rabi stand together talking in the late 1930s — Ernest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Rabi all won the Nobel Prize and contributed to the Manhattan Project.
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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.

Thu, 02/15/2024 - 16:54

Einstein and Oppenheimer talking in Oppenheimer movie — Tom Conti as Albert Einstein and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer."
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