Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly and ... Out of fear the Nazis would develop and use a nuclear weapon, Einstein wrote the letter that convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to launch ...

while Oppenheimer became the institute’s director in 1947. Einstein had signed a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, written by physicist Leo Szilard, that urged the development of a ...

Albert Einstein’s love letters and a slew of other pricey artwork are at the center of a nasty legal battle between Christie’s Auction House and a banking billionaire who owns Encyclopedia ...

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It further reads, “In reality, Oppenheimer and Einstein likely only met a few ... him to write President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a letter. Interestingly, this led to an arms war that changed ...

Swiss collector Jacob "Jacqui" Safra has filed a lawsuit against Christie's in New York, alleging betrayal of trust and ...

this Einstein has foregone his usual cheery demeanor and is instead wearing a grave frown. It seems appropriate for the film, which tracks J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) as he and the ...

When an extraordinary cache of love letters written by Albert Einstein to his first wife between 1898 and 1903 went up for auction last December, the historic collection was expected to fetch up ...