It presents a new lens in which to consider one of the most well-known events in the US—but Oppenheimer is not the only way to access the memory of this history. Manhattan Project National ...

He was a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic ... including J. Robert Oppenheimer and Nobel Prize winners Enrico Fermi, Ernest Lawrence, James Chadwick, Harold Urey ...

He did not push back on the decision, later hiring Serber to work on the Manhattan Project. The Nazi effect Until the 1930s, Oppenheimer was resolutely indifferent to politics. Though he studied ...

In New Mexico, such wealth is rare. Española, which sits on the Rio Grande and is a twenty-five-minute drive away, has a ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Naum Kazhdan/The New York Times The movie is based on “American Prometheus: The Triumph ...

Decades-old documents signed by J. Robert Oppenheimer and members of the Manhattan Project are now up for auction. RR Auction has listed a pair of historic items related to the late physicist and ...

Ore mined in the Northwest Territories was transported to Port Hope, Ont., then used to develop the bombs that were dropped ...

The implication that the Nazis could develop extremely powerful weapons prompted President Roosevelt to establish the Manhattan Project in 1941. In June 1942, Robert Oppenheimer was appointed its ...

In reality, Oppenheimer consulted Arthur Compton, who was directing the University of Chicago efforts of the Manhattan Project. "I shifted that to Einstein," Nolan told the Times. "Einstein is the ...

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 ...

In 1947, just two years after the end of WWII, a group of Manhattan Project scientists, including Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, created the Doomsday Clock. It’s a metaphor, not a ...