Robert Oppenheimer. Critic Bob Mondello says the film is a monument to science and to the arrogance of genius. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: J. Robert Oppenheimer is often referred to as the father of the ...

Many of actor Cillian Murphy’s colleagues in the new movie Oppenheimer are real scientists. The film, which chronicles the father of America’s atomic bomb, was filmed near the Los Alamos ...

Oppenheimer is widely regarded as the father of the atomic bomb, but he didn’t do it alone. Scores of scientists were exiled from Germany, as anti-Jewish laws proliferated. America welcomed many of ...

The film, based in part on the definitive Oppenheimer biography “American Prometheus,” stars Cillian Murphy as the famed scientist. One of the 20th century’s great enigmas, J. Robert ...

Robert Oppenheimer created the weapon, then he fought for years to warn of its dangers. During the second world war, the so-called “father of the atomic bomb”, led a team of scientists in the ...

"Historians sometimes call him a complicated figure," Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science and nuclear technology and professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, said of Oppenheimer.

But what happens when a scientist comes to regret the knowledge he’s unleashed? This is the central question of the upcoming film Oppenheimer, which recounts American scientist J. Robert ...

Robert Oppenheimer, a top government scientist who led the making of the atomic bomb in World War II but fell under suspicion of being a Soviet spy at the height of the McCarthy era. In a ...

"But it wasn't just him." Oppenheimer led a team of scientists to develop the world's first nuclear weapon in 1945, creating what Robock calls "the greatest danger that the world has been faced with." ...

In India, it's been a hit too but some have protested against a scene depicting the scientist reading the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism's holiest books, after sex. Oppenheimer learnt the ancient ...