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There’s nothing small scale about Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a thundering three-hour dive into the tumultuous life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, theoretical physicist, architect of America’s Manhattan Project, ‘father of the atomic bomb’.
One of the last surviving eyewitnesses from the effort to build the first atomic bomb gives his impressions of the Manhattan Project’s driving force: J. Robert Oppenheimer.
In 1954, Robert Oppenheimer was subjected to what was rightly called “an extraordinary American inquisition” under the name of a security hearing. But while extremely harmful professionally and personally, the hearings were not Oppenheimer’s greatest tragedy—it was the success of his leadership in the creation of the weapon.
Regarded as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’, Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist who led a team of scientists during World War II who were tasked with creating a weapon that would alter the course of the war.
Admired for his intellectual capability by all his classmates. and suddenly, he was an incompetent. and he just couldn't deal with that at that point. and what snapped him out of tha was his discovery of theoretica physics, of quantum physics. at the time, it was sort of the golden age of physics. it's a very exciting time to be a theorist. and if you are young and quick and willing to think weird ideas that nobody else has ever thought, you can potentially make a huge amount of progress and a name for yourself. bird: so, when oppenheimer decided to move to göttingen in germany to study with ...