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Oppenheimer: The Real Story

This is a remote area, and you weren't going tobump into other people there, whereas he...

This is a remote area, and you weren't going to
bump into other people there, whereas he grew up in the
Upper West Side of New York where all the people around him were part of the same community

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This is a remote area,
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and you weren't going to bump into other people there,
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whereas he grew up in the Upper West Side of New York
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where all the people around him
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were part of the same community.
Duration
20 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
01:26:47
Uploaded
Apr 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

The documentary covers Oppenheimer's contribution to nuclear physics as a professor and leader of the Los Alamos Laboratory.
Somebody wrote a book about that community - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:15
Somebody wrote a book about that community
The strain of working at Los Alamos - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
The strain of working at Los Alamos
And you can see, he was always a slender man, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
And you can see, he was always a slender man,
He's so thin and he never looked very well. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He's so thin and he never looked very well.
He died in his 60s, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He died in his 60s,
The cancer caught up with him - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
The cancer caught up with him
- [Kai] And Kitty knew - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
- [Kai] And Kitty knew
So some months after his death in '67, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:18
So some months after his death in '67,
[light music] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
[light music]
- My parents had been arranging for a boat - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
- My parents had been arranging for a boat
- They cut the motor and instead of scattering the ashes, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:16
- They cut the motor and instead of scattering the ashes,
[water crashing] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:16
[water crashing]
So his ashes are in an urn - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
So his ashes are in an urn
- It will probably haunt me still for the rest of my life. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
- It will probably haunt me still for the rest of my life.
That she was depressed for a lot of her adult life, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
That she was depressed for a lot of her adult life,
One of her dreams was to be an interpreter at the UN, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
One of her dreams was to be an interpreter at the UN,
It's like they were visiting - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
It's like they were visiting
[Erva speaks faintly] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
[Erva speaks faintly]
- There is no key that is going to unlock - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
- There is no key that is going to unlock
His friend Rabi said that there's no single personality - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
His friend Rabi said that there's no single personality