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Tatlock had introduced Oppenheimer to the poetry of John Donne, and it is widely believed he named the first test of a nuclear weapon "Trinity" in reference to one of Donne's poems, as a tribute to her. [45] [46] In 1962, Leslie Groves wrote to Oppenheimer about the origin of the name, and elicited this reply: I did suggest it...
After hearing John Wayne's reading, script writer John Carpenter featured the poem in the 1979 television film Better Late Than Never. [1]: 426 [12] [13] A common reading at funerals and remembrance ceremonies, the poem was introduced to many in the United Kingdom when it was read by the father of a soldier killed by a bomb in Northern Ireland ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈ ɒ p ən h aɪ m ər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
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Christopher Nolan's latest film, "Oppenheimer," is, like the title suggests, about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist largely credited as the "father of the atomic bomb."
— William Davenant, English poet and playwright (7 April 1668), setting aside the manuscript of a new poem "Far from well, yet far better than mine iniquities deserve." [11]: 109–110 — Richard Mather, Puritan minister (22 April 1669), when asked about his health "Lord!" [11]: 39
Here's everything you need to know about Oppenheimer's two children and what has happened in the 56 years since their father's death. J. Robert Oppenheimer's wife, Katherine, daughter Kit and son ...
The audio of the scene in which Tatlock directs Oppenheimer to read a verse from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds", remained intact. [165] As NDTV reported, the Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur questioned how the CBFC certified the film with the verse heard during such ...