Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

Sherwin's American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the book on which the film is based, it's noted by Oppenheimer's father, Julius, that the pair often had fleeting ...

Robert Oppenheimer. But despite the Manhattan Project ... As I detail in my forthcoming book, “The Random Factor,” nowhere was the influence of chance and luck more evident than on Oct ...

Robert Oppenheimer. I was wrong. Both books, and the movie, mention Oppenheimer’s disinterest or, at best, his ambivalence toward his Jewish heritage. Both books note that Oppenheimer ...

Oppenheimer relentlessly chips away at the veneer of the Kennedy mystique in this gossipy, sometimes shocking biography of Ethel Skakel Kennedy (born in 1928), widow of Attorney General Robert ...

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In Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning period film Oppenheimer, the biopic of the “father of the atomic bomb,” Robert J Oppenheimer ... Oppenheimer book author Kai Bird opens up on hits and ...

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 ...