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 Project ... including J. Robert Oppenheimer and Nobel ...

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 was a theoretical physicist. During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los ... Four years after directing the construction of the world ...

Many hope it will answer a question that has long divided Americans and the country’s understanding of its history: Who exactly was J. Robert ... chose Oppenheimer as the Manhattan Project ...

Those efforts in Los Alamos were led by renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer ... JENNY: After his lecture, we had a chance to sit down with Kai Bird and discuss the legacies of Oppenheimer and the ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...

U.S. theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) led the Manhattan Project, America’s wartime atomic bomb development initiative. He is also the main character of “Oppenheimer ...

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.

Director Christopher Nolan reveals a frightening detail about the Manhattan project, and how his crew brought it to the screen. J. Robert ... of worlds." After the war Oppenheimer was a chief ...

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 ...

After the oral exam for his PhD ... prompted President Roosevelt to establish the Manhattan Project in 1941. In June 1942, Robert Oppenheimer was appointed its director. Preliminary research ...