You may have already watched Christopher Nolan's blockbuster on the atomic bomb, but now you can read a first-hand account of the Manhattan ... including J. Robert Oppenheimer and Nobel Prize ...

The stick-thin, chain-smoking physicist with a penchant for leftwing politics and a very unscientific interest in mysticism, J. Robert Oppenheimer was first attached to what became known as the ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and therefore responsible for the research ...

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"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,” Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Naum Kazhdan/The New York Times The movie is ...

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.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project. During the World War II-era project, scientists created the world's first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer had ...

The implication that the Nazis could develop extremely powerful weapons prompted President Roosevelt to establish the Manhattan Project in 1941. In June 1942, Robert Oppenheimer was appointed its ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist. 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 ...