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The tenth episode of “Manhattan” finally delivers what viewers have been waiting for—a breakthrough on implosion. Frank Winter and Charlie Isaacs have teamed up with Lazar, Los Alamos’ explosives expert, to solve the complex problem of creating an implosion shockwave that will simultaneously compress a solid plutonium sphere to ignite a ...
Isaacs sees present-day intercollegiate cancer research, for example, as the natural extension of the Manhattan Project model: bring the brightest minds from across the country together and let ...
- Episode 1 — “You Always Hurt The One You love.”
- Episode 2 — “The Prisoner’S Dilemma”
- Episode 3 — “The Hive”
- Episode 4 — “Last Reasoning of Kings”
- Episode 5 — “A New Approach to Quantum Cosmology.”
- Episode 6 — “Acceptable Limits”
- Episode 7 — “The New World”
- Episode 8– “The Second Coming”
- Episode 9 — “Spooky Action at A Distance”
- Episode 10 — “The Understudy”
The pilot episode introduces us with the Manhattan Project already in full swing, so to speak. Our central character, grizzled scientist Frank Winter (John Benjamin Hickey), is unleashing some frustration, by teeing off golf balls into the New Mexico desert. That’s when inspiration strikes: the key to unlocking the destructive power of the atom cou...
This is the tragedy of Sid Liao, a scientist in Winter’s group, and a young Asian-American fighting against the prejudice of a culture burning with hatred for “Japs.” In Los Alamos, he’s fighting for his homeland — the United States — but also hopes that some of the technologies he was developing could make him some money after the war ends and sec...
There is a death on The Hill, violent and mysterious, which causes a panic in this tight-knit community of scientists and their families like a rock thrown into a beehive. Kept utterly in the dark by their husbands, who have now seen the cost of breaking their vow of secrecy, the wives of Los Alamos are searching for their own answers, any type the...
There aren’t a lot of celebrity cameos on Manhattan. Most of the actors are of the character variety, men and women you’ve seen before, even if you don’t realize it. But this episode brought in a cameo of a different variety — the famous physicist Niels Bohr (played by Christian Clemenson), renowned for breakthroughs in mapping the structure of ato...
One of the most intriguing characters on Manhattangets to take center stage in this episode, with Daniel Stern’s kindly, goat-bearded old scientist, Glen Babbit, comes under fire from the young upstart Isaacs — merely for being a friend and mentor to Frank Winter. Babbit’s crime? Isaacs knew him to also be friendly with a traitorous scientist who h...
Another lovable figure from Winter’s ragtag group of scientist suffers a lab accident that leads to the disappearance of the tiny amount of radioactive material he was studying. Louis “Fritz” Fedowitz (Michael Chernus), the loveable, lonely-hearted lunk of the group, finds he has inhaled the material. Concerned for his safety, while trying to minim...
Isaacs and Helen Prins (Katja Herbers), the only female scientist working on the Manhattan Project, are dispatched to Tennessee to monitor the launch of the reactor that will generate radioactive material for the bomb project. They discover that the facility’s chief, Ellis (played by John Carrol Lynch), is a blowhard who considers himself a factory...
Abby Isaacs breaks protocol to meet with her parents, who are traveling through New Mexico by train and have dire news of their relatives in Eastern Europe, where Hitler is engaging in genocide, although the American public knows little more than rumors about that at this point in history. Suddenly, the need to defeat the Axis powers and end this w...
A dalliance with psychotropic desert drugs leads to a long, strange trip for the three musketeers of the implosion team — Fritz, the combative, arrogant British scientist Paul Crosley (Harry Lloyd) and Jim Meeks (Christopher Denham), the mild-mannered researcher who has lashed out at security for the death of his friend Sid Liao, whom Meeks refuses...
As the science behind Akley’s “Thin Man” project falls apart, the last hope for a workable atomic bomb falls on the implosion group – otherwise known as the backup plan. Winter, Isaacs, and the “Russian cowboy” armory chief Lazar (Peter Stormare) experiment by clustering explosives in a sphere, trying to determine how they can shape the shockwaves ...
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Jul 25, 2023 · They were the more weathered and cynical version of another couple at the facility, ambitious young scientist Charlie Isaacs (Ashley Zukerman) and his lonesome wife, Abby (Rachel Brosnahan),...
Jul 13, 2023 · One of those physicists is newcomer Charlie Isaacs (Australian actor Ashley Zukerman), a young, ambitious, Jewish scientist who is dubbed one of the great minds of his generation by his...
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Nov 22, 2017 · Eric D. Isaacs gives lecture on how the Manhattan Project affected funding streams, collaboration and even perceptions about scientists in society. Photo by Jean Lachat. As the University of Chicago considers the legacy of the first Manhattan Project experiment, performed 75 years ago under its abandoned football stands, it has examined topics ...
Jul 17, 2020 · WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2020 -- In recognition of the 75th anniversary of the Trinity test, marking the first detonation of a nuclear bomb, the American Institute of Physics commemorates the scientific legacy of the Manhattan Project with a collection of new articles and historic testimony.
