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Jewish physicist J Robert Oppenheimer is played in Christopher Nolan’s film by non-Jewish actor Murphy

We take a look at Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist and the man, beyond his most famous scientific development- the atomic bomb.

It was 8:15 on a Monday morning, Aug. 6, 1945. World War II was raging in Japan and across Europe.

If you're curious about how Oppenheimer would play in a more linear form, this timeline is here to help.

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In addition to the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer also worked on many other areas of physics.

J. Robert Oppenheimer had already made a foray into the topic of stellar collapse, which convinced him of the inevitability of black holes. Together with his student George Volkoff, he was able to significantly extend Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s result. Then, with Hartland Snyder, Oppenheimer provided a remarkably accurate mathematical description of the…

Christopher Nolan’s film about the godfather of the nuclear bomb is impressive, and Cillian Murphy the perfect man for the job, but do women get a raw deal and is it all too sanitised?

Atomic Power, a groundbreaking 18-minute black-and-white film about the Manhattan Project which created the world’s first atomic bomb, may not be as famous as Christopher Nolan’s 2023 epic, Oppenheimer. However, this largely overlooked 1946 cinematic experience was pioneering in communicating the history behind the nuclear detonation in the New Mexico…

Were Oppenheimer and Einstein friends? Were there spies at Los Alamos? Let's go over these real facts about Oppenheimer.

Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film Oppenheimer is a biopic about the theoretical physicist behind the atomic bomb. After watching the film, I was inspired to write about my visit to the actual Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated.