CultureLab: Oppenheimer – The rise and fall of the “father of the atomic bomb”
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Christopher Nolan: The Most Important Man Who Ever Lived
General Leslie Groves was chosen as director of Los Alamos in 1942. He had never administered more than a handful of graduate students when he took the job. A quantum physicist who loved Ernest Hemingway and wrote poetry himself, his success may have been partly due to that love for literature. "He motivated people to work hard, but also to play hard at Los Alamos," says historian David Frum.
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