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1. openlearning.mit.edu › news › ask-mit-professorAsk an MIT Professor: The science behind ‘Oppenheimer’

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   Nov 21, 2023 · 8. MIT’s motto is “mens et manus,” meaning “mind and hand.”. The film shows Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, becoming the father of the atomic bomb. How does this align with MIT’s educational ideals, and what does it imply for the future of quantum physics? “MIT really embodies ‘mens et manus’ and the idea that if you ...

2. www.vulture.com › article › oppenheimer-ending‘Oppenheimer’ Ending, Explained by Christopher Nolan

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   Jul 21, 2023 · Throughout the film, we’ve been given glimpses of Oppenheimer’s visions of the subatomic world, of the quantum reality that his studies have opened up. To convey this, Nolan cuts to images of ...

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     Oppenheimer: What is an H-bomb? - BBC News

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4. www.cbsnews.com › news › oppenheimer-cillian-murphy"Oppenheimer" star Cillian Murphy on the preparation, hard ...

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   Feb 19, 2024 · His Oppenheimer was not so much a miracle as hard work. He lost 28 pounds to get the silhouette. Then, he rose to the character step-by-step over six months--reading, listening to Oppenheimer's ...

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5. www.pbs.org › newshour › showWhy there are new assessments of Oppenheimer’s role in ...

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   Dec 26, 2022 · Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer led what was called the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. He is perhaps best known as the father of the atomic bomb. As time has ...

6. thebulletin.org › 2023 › 08What ‘Oppenheimer’ can teach today’s scientists

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   Aug 12, 2023 · Ultimately, the film has lessons for the roles and responsibilities of scientists in society. The first part of the film does a fantastic job conveying the excitement of intellectual discovery. A young man, J. Robert Oppenheimer, leaves America for Europe on an adventure in hot pursuit of knowledge about the “new physics,” quantum mechanics.

7. www.nature.com › articles › d41586/023/02409-8Why Oppenheimer has important lessons for scientists today

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   Jul 26, 2023 · Oppenheimer. has important lessons for scientists today. Atomic bomb historian Richard Rhodes talks to Nature about how researchers fare in the film, and what it gets right and wrong. J. Robert ...

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   What did Oppenheimer do?

   • But one of the things that Oppenheimer did was to advocate for weekly colloquia in which people in different divisions actually got to talk to each other, and he had to persuade Groves that the project could not be successful if scientists working in different areas were compartmentalized, only knowing what they specifically needed to know.

   Oppenheimer, a complicated man — Harvard Gazette

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   What does physics say to Oppenheimer?

   • The film shows the scientists wrestling in various ways with the implications of their work on nuclear weapons. Physicist Isidor Rabi says to Oppenheimer: “You drop a bomb, and it falls on the just and the unjust. I don’t wish the culmination of three centuries of physics to be a weapon of mass destruction.”

   What ‘Oppenheimer’ can teach today’s scientists

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   Who plays Robert Oppenheimer in 'Oppenheimer'?

   • Atomic bomb historian Richard Rhodes talks to Nature about how researchers fare in the film, and what it gets right and wrong. J. Robert Oppenheimer in real life (left) and as played by actor Cillian Murphy (right) in the film Oppenheimer. Credit: Associated Press/Alamy, FlixPix/Alamy

   Why Oppenheimer has important lessons for scientists today - Nature

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   Will 'Oppenheimer' have a lasting impact?

   • 'Oppenheimer' might not have a lasting impact because the world-ending potential of nuclear weapons is now essentially taken for granted in public discussions, a Princeton physicist argues. Christopher Nolan’s "Oppenheimer" authentically conveys the contradictions of the man, some I discovered in a small way, a physicist writes.

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9. news.harvard.edu › gazette › storyOppenheimer, a complicated man — Harvard Gazette

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   Jul 19, 2023 · Historian unwinds the complexities of J. Robert Oppenheimer as scientist, legend. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a complicated man. A Harvard-educated theoretical physicist and scientific director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico during World War II, he is often referred to as the “father of the atomic bomb.”.