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  2. American Prometheus - Wikipedia

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    The book chronicles Oppenheimer's rise to fame as "the father of the atomic bomb" and director of the Manhattan Project, as well as his tragic downfall due to his security hearing in the McCarthy era. The book shows efforts by Lewis Strauss and the FBI to undermine Oppenheimer. The bomb is regarded as a crucial turning point and a significant ...

  3. Oppenheimer's big screen odyssey: The man, the book and ... - AOL

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    J. Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atom bomb and subject of a magisterial biography and now an epic film, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., on April 5, 1963.

  4. The Book That Inspired ‘Oppenheimer’ Took 25 Years to Write

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    Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is based on the biography 'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,' by Martin J. Sherwin and Kai Bird. The Book That Inspired ...

  5. It was in 2021 that Christopher Nolan first read “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird’s sweeping biography about the physicist ...

  6. Edward Teller - Wikipedia

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    Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian and American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design based on Stanisław Ulam's design.

  7. Project Y - Wikipedia

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    In nuclear fusion, the nuclei of light elements are fused to create a heavier element.. To review this work and the general theory of fission reactions, Oppenheimer and Fermi convened meetings at the University of Chicago in June and at the University of California in Berkeley, in July with theoretical physicists Hans Bethe, John Van Vleck, Edward Teller, Emil Konopinski, Robert Serber, Stan ...

  8. 12 Best Books to Read After Watching Oppenheimer - AOL

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    If you want to learn more about the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb, the Trinity Site, and J. Robert Oppenheimer himself, here's where to start. 12 Best Books to Read After Watching Oppenheimer ...

  9. Kai Bird - Wikipedia

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    Bird and co-author Martin J. Sherwin won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf, 2005). [10] He and Sherwin also won the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for their biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. In 2008, they also won the Duff Cooper ...