Einstein did encourage Oppenheimer to turn his back on the US. After all his work, and after the war was over, Oppenheimer's life came under a bizarre national security investigation, which is the ...

Though Einstein didn’t help build the nuclear bomb and has just a few scenes in ‘Oppenheimer,’ they pack a punch—and reflect the two physicists’ real-life dynamic.

Like the film, Einstein and Oppenheimer were in fact colleagues and friends in real life. The pair first met in 1932 during Einstein's visit to CalTech.

The Oppenheimer biography “American Prometheus” speculates that a 1948 Time magazine piece calling Einstein a “landmark, not a beacon” got the phrase anonymously from Oppenheimer.

The reason Einstein looked so grim is because Oppenheimer had just informed the famed scientist that he believed that long-ago theory—that the atomic bomb would cause a chain reaction to blow up ...

From Einstein and Oppenheimer’s friendship to fears about the power of the atomic bomb and how a future president played a role in the movie’s ending, there’s a lot to cover, so let’s ...

Oppenheimer has kept cinemagoers talking since its release on July 21 and among those debates will be its key role for Albert Einstein. If you didn't really know Oppenheimer's story, you might ...

Oppenheimer reminds Einstein of his biggest fear: that constructing the bomb would set in motion a chain reaction that destroys the world. “What of it?” asks Einstein.

The awards juggernaut Oppenheimer provides a blockbuster treatment of one scientist’s profoundly mixed feelings regarding his role in the creation of the atomic bomb, and its subsequent use in ...

Einstein loved to sail, and transported his 14-foot sailboat to a marina in Cutchogue for the season. ... That successful effort was led and engineered by J. Robert Oppenheimer.