《Oppenheimer》Introduction to characters in the movie

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J.Robert Oppenheimer(Cillian Murphy)

Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project, presided over the development of the atomic bomb.

Oppenheimer had an eccentric nature and was dissatisfied with his mentor Patrick Blackett (James D'Arcy) who insisted that he focus on laboratory work rather than theory, and is said to have given Blackett a poisoned apple.

The instructor did not eat, but the university placed Oppenheimer on academic probation.

It is worth mentioning that the mentor is played by Jarvis in Agent Carter.

After earning a PhD in physics from a German university, Oppenheimer accepted professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology, becoming a pioneer in theoretical physics in the United States.

As World War II progressed, Oppenheimer was appointed director of the Los Alamos Institute, part of the vast atomic bomb development program.

He was sent to New Mexico as a child to be treated for dysentery and loved it there.

He established a secret laboratory in the desert of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and coordinated the work of many top physicists and engineers, culminating in the first successful nuclear explosion at Alamogordo on July 16, 1945., that test was known as the "Trinity Nuclear Test%" in history.

The actor is the familiar Scarecrow.

Nolan once said that when he saw Killian's blue eyes, he knew he was the one to play the role of Oppenheimer.

Lewis Strauss(Robert Downey Jr.)

Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, was born in West Virginia and worked as a travel shoe salesman and investment banking partner.

During World War I, he was an official in future President Hoover's Food Administration.

After World War II, President Truman appointed Strauss to head the Atomic Energy Department.

He became chairman of the department's committee promoting the development of the hydrogen bomb.

Strauss later served as acting secretary of Commerce in the Eisenhower administration, but his nomination was rejected by the Senate.

This is one of the roles that best reflects Downey's acting skills.

You can hardly see a trace of Iron Man or Sherlock Holmes in him, but a wily politician.

Gene Tatlock (played by Florence Pugh)

Tatlock was Oppenheimer's former girlfriend and lover and had been an active Communist Party member in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She was a graduate student at Stanford University School of Medicine when she began dating Oppenheimer in 1936.

She helped introduce Oppenheimer to communist activists and deepened Oppenheimer's left-wing sympathies.

In 1939, the two broke up, but Oppenheimer still visited her.

Their last meeting was in June 1943, under FBI surveillance.

In 1944, 29-year-old Tatlock was found dead in her bathroom.Most historians conclude that she died by suicide.

The actress is a familiar widowed girl who contributed the best special effects in the film - the little black dress.

William Borden(David Dastmalchian)

Borden was born in Washington in 1920 and holds degrees from Yale University and Yale Law School.

In 1953, probably with Strauss's encouragement, he wrote a letter to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover indicating that Robert Oppenheimer was likely a Soviet agent..

The letter further prompted closed-door hearings into Oppenheimer's ties to communism, a scene that was recreated in the film and resulted in Oppenheimer's security clearance being revoked.

This is also an old acquaintance, he is in Ant-Man, Scott's good brother, he is in the new Suicide Squad, everyone looks like a fucking spotted man.

Ernest Lawrence (played by Josh Hartnett)

Lawrence received his PhD in physics from Yale University and became a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

At Berkeley he invented the cyclotron, a particle accelerator that was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb.

Lawrence introduced Oppenheimer to the Manhattan Project.After the war, he advocated the development of hydrogen nuclear weapons.

He is - Pearl Harbor - the second male lead Danny, who had a love triangle with the male protagonist Ben Bat. Because of the Pearl Harbor incident, the two turned love rivals into comrades in arms and experienced the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Edward Tylor(Benny Safdie)

Benny Safdie plays Edward Teller, the physicist who testified against Oppenheimer.

Taylor was born in Budapest, received a doctorate in physics in Germany, later gained a professorship at George Washington University, and became an American citizen in 1941.

Known for his work on nuclear energy, he joined Oppenheimer's team at Los Alamos, where he worked in the Theoretical Physics Department.

Taylor was obsessed with hydrogen energy and the development of the hydrogen bomb, which brought him into conflict with other members of the Manhattan Project.

After the Soviet Union tested atomic weapons in 1949, Taylor became a major proponent of developing the hydrogen bomb to gain advantage in the Cold War.

He later testified against Oppenheimer in a closed-door hearing, saying:

“I think I would rather see the vital interests of this country in the hands of people I know better and therefore trust more.”

This is also a key line in the movie that determines Oppenheimer's fate.

Albert Einstein(Tom Conti)

This character needs no introduction, hahahaha.

But many people are curious, did Oppenheimer meet Einstein in real history?

Indeed, they had been colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 1966, Oppenheimer wrote in an article in the New York Review of Books:

“Although I had known Einstein for twenty or thirty years, it was not until the last ten years of his life that we became close colleagues and friends.”

However, the meeting and conversation between the two in the movie were indeed fabricated by Nolan, which is different from history.

In the film, Oppenheimer seeks advice from Einstein on atomic bomb calculations that show a highly unlikely chain reaction of a nuclear explosion that would destroy the entire world.

Historically, the person Oppenheimer consulted on this issue was not Einstein, but a man named Arthur Compton, the head of the Manhattan Project office at the University of Chicago.

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