With the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer in 2023, renewed attention has been paid to the complicated life and legacy of one of history’s most famous scientists. At the Bulletin, the ...

With the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer in 2023, renewed attention has been paid to the complicated life and legacy of one of history’s most famous scientists. At the Bulletin, the ...

On December 16th, the Secretary of the Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, issued an order vacating the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission decision that revoked Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security ...

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a masterly vision of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s American Prometheus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer.However, it is a biopic, not ...

So, even though the magazine itself was founded in 1945 by a group of atomic scientists and engineers, with J. Robert Oppenheimer—the director of the Los Alamos laboratory that built the first atomic ...

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer puffs pipe during an interview at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J., on April 5, 1963, after he was named winner of the Enrico Fermi Award.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was dubbed the "father of the atomic bomb", and though he did what was asked of him, the scientist ultimately lost everything following the security hearing — his friends ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer death In 1967, Oppenheimer died in Princeton, New Jersey, of throat cancer, according to the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, is the subject of Christopher Nolan’s latest movie “Oppenheimer” nearly 80 years after his life’s work made history and changed the world ...