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The BBC has added its seven-part Oppenheimer series to iPlayer in the wake of the Christopher Nolan biopic's success at the box office.

Christopher Nolan’s film “Oppenheimer” has focused new attention on the legacies of the Manhattan Project – the World War II program to develop nuclear weapons. As the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, approach, it’s a timely moment to look further…

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s triumph was his tragedy. Oppenheimer had many achievements in theoretical physics but is remembered as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. Under his directorship, scientists at Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bomb was designed and built, forever changed how people view the world, adding a new…

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

What Oppie began became a full-scale nuclear-industrial complex on planet where destruction lurks around the corner

Child actors and British soap stars, Christopher Nolan’s film has it all

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

Child actors and British soap stars, Christopher Nolan’s film has it all

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…