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Boston auction house puts letter and report signed by Oppenheimer up for bidding
Robert Oppenheimer and members of the Manhattan Project are now up for auction ... The second item listed for auction is a typed letter, written and signed by Oppenheimer, that includes his ...
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The Jewish story behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ explained
But Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Groves chose Oppenheimer as the Manhattan Project’s director in 1942 ... Einstein had signed a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, written by physicist ...
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‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time
Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos ... transcripts, letters, diaries, declassified documents and FBI dossiers. Mark Sommerfeld for The ...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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 ...
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The Women of Los Alamos
Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research ... well as transcripts from congressional hearings and letters among some of the principals offers a unique ...
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'Oppenheimer' Tripled the Number of Visitors to Manhattan Project National Park
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 ...
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The teamwork of Kenneth Nichols and Leslie Groves on the Manhattan Project; travel schedules
Nichols as deputy district engineer and subsequently as district engineer of the Manhattan ... with Oppenheimer took place at Oak Ridge, Berkeley, New York, Chicago or Washington, when problems arose.
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The remarkable story of the world's first atomic bomb and how Oppenheimer reacted to the historic moment
"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...
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'Oppenheimer' doesn't get Einstein's relationship with the Los Alamos director quite right. Here's what they really thought of each other.
In reality, Oppenheimer consulted Arthur Compton, who was directing the University of Chicago efforts of the Manhattan Project ... Einstein wrote the letter that convinced President Franklin ...
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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Teaser
A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist. During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, where he led the effort to develop the world’s ...