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The Black scientists behind the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb program that inspired the movie...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWilliam Jacob Knox, Jr., Samuel Proctor Massie, and Carolyn Parker were among the handful of Black...
31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 3 months agoErnest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Rabi all won the Nobel Prize and contributed to the...
Oppenheimer's hero Niels Bohr has a legacy as complicated as the "father of the atomic bomb"
Salon via Yahoo News· 10 months agoNiels Bohr Getty Images/Bettmann In Christopher Nolan's hit biopic "Oppenheimer," real-life Danish...
'The night turned into day': How Manhattan Project scientists reacted to the world's first atomic...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWe see an enormous yellow bubble that is an atomic bomb exploding against a black sky. To celebrate...
Albert Einstein wrote to the US pleading with the government to build an atomic bomb 80 years ago....
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA composite image showing Albert Einstein around 1939 and nuclear explosion in French Polynesia in...
Scientists set to reveal if Doomsday Clock is any closer to midnight
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoScientists are due to announce if the world is any nearer ending when they reveal if the Doomsday...
Former TCU professor worked on real-life ‘Oppenheimer’; not his first brush with Hollywood
Fort Worth Star-Telegram McClatchy via AOL· 2 months agoHarrison Miller Moseley was many things, and at the top of an impressive list was his work as...
‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: A Gripping Biography of a Manhattan Project Outlier
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJust before director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming “Oppenheimer” plants a fixed image of Ted Hall in...
US scientists trying to harness the power of the sun have made a 2nd major breakthrough for the...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOperators inspect the National Ignition Facility target chamber where the fusion ignition...
The atomic bomb, first used 77 years ago this month, had two significant Evansville ties
The Courier & Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt’s not hyperbole to suggest that there are two worlds – one before and one after the detonation of the atomic bomb. Interestingly, there are two Southern Indiana connections to J. Robert Oppenheimer ...