Atomic icon: Robert Oppenheimer's image on screen and stage
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer was the movie hit of 2023 but it was far from the first film to cover the life of Robert Oppenheimer. In this month’s cover feature, Sidney Perkowitz casts his eye over how the talented but troubled physicist has been depicted on screen and stage. Also this month, Anna Demming looks at the physicists trying to explain why people’s opinions these days are so polarized, while Chad Orzel recounts the events that led to the creation of the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995.
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