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Jul 26, 2023 · Strauss found his support for a hydrogen bomb doggedly opposed by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the chairman of the AEC’s general advisory committee who led the Manhattan Project in Los...
Strauss was the driving force behind physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer 's security clearance hearing, held in April and May 1954 before an AEC Personnel Security Board, in which Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked. As a result, Strauss often has been regarded as a villain in American history.
Mar 10, 2024 · Here’s why Lewis Strauss, the Atomic Energy Commission chairman played by Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer, orchestrated the downfall of the famous scientist.
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Mar 9, 2024 · Lewis Strauss’s Senate confirmation battle was far more complicated and historically significant than depicted in the film “Oppenheimer.”
Aug 9, 2023 · Lewis Strauss was a controversial yet high ranking figure who had it out for J. Robert Oppenheimer. Here's what happened to him after the Oppenheimer hearings.
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May 13, 2024 · Lewis Strauss (born January 31, 1896, Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.—died January 21, 1974, Brandy Station, Virginia) was an American businessman and official who was head of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1953 to 1958 and acting secretary of commerce from 1958 to 1959.
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Nov 23, 2023 · Just around a decade and a half after being rejected by the Senate to become the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Strauss died in 1974, losing a battle with lymphosarcoma after three years. Oppenheimer died 7 years prior, in 1967, despite being eight years younger than Strauss.
