In a race against time and the enemy, J. Robert Oppenheimer helped lead the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb. But he was almost bounced from the Manhattan Project entirely—why? J.

Theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer delivers a lecture titled "Thoughts on Science and Culture" in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 27, 1962. Despite inventing the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer may not be as familiar a name in Kerala as APJ Abdul Kalam. But Christopher Nolan’s multiple Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer has changed that, bringing the American ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, reflecting upon the sacred Hindu text of the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” For Garwin, it was something less. “I never felt that ...

A 72-year-old man who died in a small plane crash had the foresight to write up his own obituary before his death, and he packed it full of charm and stories of his close calls in life. "I am ...

WashU announced plans to rename the Robert J. Terry endowed Professorship in the School of Medicine and the annual Robert J. Terry Lecture Series in the Neuroscience Department, following a ...

“I am completely dead now,” Gary wrote in his ... But it’s not Gary’s death that has people talking. It’s his life, and the way Gary was given the rare opportunity to announce not ...

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