Did J Robert Oppenheimer really know Albert Einstein?
is out in cinemas, we have more context of the pivotal conversation that takes place between Oppenheimer and Einstein. So let's delve into how accurate to real life it is.The conversation takes place at the Institute for Advanced Science where Oppenheimer became director in 1947 and Einstein had been since he fled Germany in 1933.
Initially, we don't see what they say, only that a paranoid Lewis Strauss believes Oppenheimer said something that led to Einstein blanking Strauss. We don't return to the conversation until the final moments of the movie when it's revealed they were talking about the atomic bomb and whether Oppenheimer changed the world.
There's nothing to say this conversation played out exactly as we see in the movie, but Oppenheimer and Einstein did know each other at the institute. As is highlighted in the movie, they didn't exactly see eye-to-eye when it came to quantum physics, but had a mutual respect. "Though I knew Einstein for two or three decades, it was only in the last decade of his life that we were close colleagues and something of friends," Oppenheimer wrote in
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