He was an immigrant’s son. A sailor. An equestrian. And a poet who wrote about a small Long Island town where he enjoyed idyllic holidays. He was also a scientific genius who was well versed in eight ...

Oppenheimer’s life and work shaped the course of the 20th century, but his legacy is highly controversial. This video ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was brilliant, arrogant, proud, charismatic — and a national hero. Under his leadership during World War II, the United States succeeded in becoming the first nation to harness ...

Charles Oppenheimer knows his family name comes with a heavy responsibility. He's the grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project, becoming the father of the atomic ...

TK Radha was a brilliant Indian physicist who earned a rare invitation from Robert Oppenheimer to conduct research at ...

Introduction -- Defying the odds / Cynthia C. Kelly -- ch. 1. Introducing Oppenheimer -- Oppenheimer reconsidered / Jeff Bingaman -- Robert Oppenheimer : king of the hill / Richard Rhodes -- A novel ...

Eric Singer, a historian specializing in The Cold War era, read Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s 2006 Pulitzer-Prize winning American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer three ...

The first full-scale biography of the "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the fire of the sun for his country in time of war. After ...