《Oppenheimer》character relationship diagram

Recently, a much-anticipated film and television work appeared in the audience's sight, called Oppenheimer. It received a lot of attention and praise during the promotion stage, making people full of expectations, but it has not been released since its launch.Disappoint the audience.Especially recently, people have been very interested in Oppenheimer's character relationship diagram and want to know more relevant information.

1. Einstein

Let’s talk about what everyone is most familiar with first. Einstein created the two pillars of modern physics: the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

One of the clues in the Strauss line of the movie is what exactly Oppenheimer and Einstein said by the river.

It was precisely because Einstein wrote to US President Roosevelt that the United States invested heavily in researching the atomic bomb and launched the Manhattan Project.

2. Kurt Gödel

The most outstanding contribution is Gödel's incompleteness theorem.

Edward Teller proposed that nuclear fusion might induce a nuclear fusion reaction in nitrogen in the atmosphere, which would then ignite the atmosphere and cause the destruction of the earth.

So he created a section in the movie where Oppenheimer asks Einstein for help with a rough calculation.At this time, Einstein happened to be walking in the woods with his good friend Gödel.

3. Edward Tylor

That is, the father of the hydrogen bomb and the prototype of Dr. Strangelove.

Be sure to keep this character in mind, there were many opportunities for Edward Teller to appear in movies as a member of the Manhattan Project.In fact, from the beginning, Taylor proposed to make a large hydrogen bomb, which was more powerful than the atomic bomb. This was the research direction he was interested in.

In “Trinity”, mankind's first nuclear explosion experiment, Taylor was one of the few scientists who did not lie flat on the ground, but wore goggles to watch the entire process of the nuclear explosion. It is worth noting that this interesting scene appeared in the movie.

However, Taylor's reputation in the scientific community is not good, largely due to his controversial negative testimony at the Oppenheimer safety hearings.

It is worth mentioning that Edward Taylor is also Yang Zhenning’s doctoral thesis supervisor!

4. Niels Bohr

Along with Einstein, he is one of the three giants of quantum mechanics and the founder of the Copenhagen School.

The more famous one is the series of debates between Bohr and Einstein about quantum physics.For example, when Heisenberg proposed the Uncertainty Principle and Einstein said “God cannot throw dice”, Bohr, as Heisenberg's teacher, choked back: “Einstein, don't tell God what to do”.

In the movie, although Niels Bohr has few opportunities to appear, he is very important. Many characters and events are intertwined with him.Later, after Bohr fled to the United States, he revealed to Oppenheimer the good news that his student Heisenberg in Germany was researching nuclear energy in the wrong direction.

5. Werner Heisenberg

A student of Niels Bohr and one of the founders of quantum mechanics, he is known as one of the most accomplished scientists after Einstein.

After the outbreak of World War II, Jewish scientists fled one after another. As a pure German, Heisenberg was left in Germany and was responsible for researching the technical work of the atomic bomb.

If Oppenheimer was a genius, then Heisenberg was the genius among geniuses.

Fortunately, the atomic energy research conducted by Heisenberg did not receive sufficient financial support on the one hand. On the other hand, the direction of Heisenberg's research was nuclear reactors and did not develop into destructive weapons.

After the war, Heisenberg finally admitted that he was actually an undercover agent and had set up various obstacles for Germany's research on the atomic bomb.

6. Max Born

One of the founders of quantum mechanics and one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century.

The film shows Oppenheimer's depressed mental state at the beginning of his studies at Cambridge. It was not until he was invited by Max Born to come to the University of Göttingen to study theoretical physics that Oppenheimer was reborn.

7. Enrico Fermi

Because “Fermi Paradox” is well known to everyone.

Like Oppenheimer, he was a student of Max Born.

After the Manhattan Project was launched, Oppenheimer served as director of Alamos Laboratory and Fermi served as deputy director.

The movie perfectly shows that Fermi and his team built Chicago Reactor No. 1 in the Metallurgical Laboratory under the University of Chicago Stadium, which was also the first controllable nuclear reactor in human history.

It is worth mentioning that Enrico Fermi had a student named Li Zhengdao.

8. Ernest Lawrence

The greatest achievement was the design and construction of the first high-energy particle cyclotron.Also a member of the Manhattan Project.

Lawrence was a colleague of Oppenheimer's when he taught at the University of California, Berkeley.In the movie, unlike Oppenheimer, who was a theoretical physics professor, Lawrence was the experimental physics professor who was doing crazy experiments in the classroom next to him.

A theory and an experiment, the two complement each other perfectly.In terms of personality, compared to Oppenheimer's leftist radicalness, Lawrence was much more conservative. Lawrence even advised Oppenheimer many times not to participate in leftist activities.

The most noteworthy thing is that Ernest Lawrence had a Chinese female student, Wu Jianxiong, who is known as China’s Madame Curie.

Wu Jianxiong's most famous scientific research achievement is the use of experimental methods to verify parity non-conservation. Her verification results directly allowed her colleagues Zhengdao Li and Chen Ning Yang to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957!

At the same time, Wu Jianxiong was also the only Chinese in the Manhattan Project. She was mainly involved in the production of enriched uranium. It was Wu Jianxiong's paper that solved the problem of the chain reaction not being able to continue, thus accelerating the development of atomic bombs.

The only pity is that the character Wu Jianxiong did not appear in the movie.

9. Isidore Rabbi

“The father of nuclear magnetic resonance”Oppenheimer's old friend.

In fact, Isidore Rabie refused Oppenheimer's invitation at first, but later joined the Manhattan Project as a consultant and engaged in radar-related work.

During the preparatory stage of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos was initially to be set up as a military laboratory. Isidore Rabi felt that science could not be militarized and strongly opposed this plan. Finally, he chose a compromise plan and experimented with it.The chamber is controlled by the Army but operated by the University of California.

10. Klaus Fox

German physicist and member of the Manhattan Project.

Just four years after the United States successfully detonated the world's first atomic bomb, the Soviet Union successfully developed an atomic bomb. The reason for all this was that Klaus Fox disclosed information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.

In the movie, the key to the collapse of Oppenheimer's political career is also closely related to the leakage of Manhattan Project information.

In 1950, Klaus Fuchs pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.And Klaus Fox was also called by later generations: the most dangerous spy of the century!

11. Leo Szilard

Hungarian-American nuclear physicist and member of the Manhattan Project.

Leo Szilard, who impresses me every time he appears in the movie, is simply the man behind Einstein and Fermi!

It was mentioned at the beginning that the letter Einstein wrote to US President Roosevelt was actually completed with the assistance of Szilard, so later generations also called the letter that started the Manhattan Project: the Einstein-Szilard letter.

As for the first controllable nuclear reactor in human history led by Fermi, Szilard served as the chief physicist of the Metallurgical Laboratory beneath the University of Chicago Stadium!

As for the more famous “Szilard Petition”, it was a petition initiated by Szilard in the hope that President Truman would warn Japan before using the atomic bomb.

12. David Hill

American nuclear physicist and a member of Fermilab.

One of the 70 scientists who signed Szilard's petition, there is a scene in the movie where David Hill interacts with Oppenheimer holding the petition.

And in the movie, David Hill's final appearance, real-namely opposing Louis Strauss, played by Robert Downey Jr., to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, is definitely the killing blow of the entire movie!

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