‘Oppenheimer’ and 51��

Andy Fell — August 07, 2023 - 10:51am

Early in the movie Oppenheimer, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) visits the Berkeley laboratory where Ernest Lawrence is building a particle accelerator to study nuclear physics. The scene reminded me that the giant magnets from one of those accelerators later came to 51��, forming the core of the cyclotron at the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory on campus. It is one of several links between Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project and 51��.

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‘Oppenheimer’ and 51�������

‘Oppenheimer’ and 51��