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They found John Lansdale Jr. particularly persuasive; he had interrogated Oppenheimer over the Chevalier incident in 1943, and strongly supported him. [25] On August 11, 1947, the AEC unanimously voted to grant Oppenheimer a Q clearance. [26] At the first meeting of the GAC on January 3, 1947, Oppenheimer was unanimously elected its chairman. [27]
Haakon Maurice Chevalier (September 10, 1901 – July 4, 1985) was an American writer, translator, and professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley best known for his friendship with physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom he met at Berkeley, California in 1937.
[1] [2] He was a Fellow of the Physical Society. [3] He and his wife were suspected of being agents of the USSR looking for US atom bomb secrets. He was named by Robert Oppenheimer when interviewed by the Atomic Energy Commission [4] which resulted in Oppenheimer being stripped of his security clearance, in the so-called Chevalier Incident.
The incident was described in the book that inspired Nolan’s film – American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin.
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The assassination theory has been presented in the drama miniseries Manhattan, [29] and also the 2023 film Oppenheimer. In the latter, Oppenheimer imagines Tatlock's death in multiple ways: she lowers her head gradually into the bathtub, and in another scene a gloved hand can be seen shoving her head beneath the water. [52]
Scene 4: Kitty seduces Oppenheimer . Oppenheimer’s other principal love affair is with Kitty (Emily Blunt), who becomes his wife. (He was her third husband.) Their passion is cemented during a ...