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Thanks in part to its physics-centric plot, the hit movie may depict more Cornellians than any other feature film in history<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With 13 Academy Award nominations, <\/em>Oppenheimer is the frontrunner at this year\u2019s Oscars. Dramatizing the efforts of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, it\u2019s the highest-grossing biopic of all time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it may also hold a more niche record: it depicts more real-life Cornellians (both alumni and former faculty) as characters than any other feature. They include:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Hans Bethe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(Played by Gustaf Skarsg\u00e5rd)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bethe was on the physics faculty from 1935\u201375, and remained active as an emeritus professor until his death in 2005. He led the Los Alamos Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project and testified on Oppenheimer\u2019s behalf at the 1954 hearing that ultimately stripped him of his security clearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The namesake of Hans Bethe House on West Campus, he won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics (the actual medal<\/a> is in the University Library\u2019s collection). <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After the war, he was active in the push for peaceful use of nuclear energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Richard Feynman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(Played by Jack Quaid)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feynman was a group leader under Bethe\u2019s Theoretical Division, working on the Bethe-Feynman formula for calculating the yield of a fission bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the war, Bethe and colleague Robert Bacher recruited Feynman to Cornell, and he taught physics from 1945\u201350, living at Telluride House for much of that time. While the Ithaca weather spurred his departure for warmer climes at Caltech, the work that won him the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics was largely conducted on the Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Richard
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(In the film, you can spot Feynman because of his passion for playing bongos.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feynman would later cross paths with another Cornellian: he played a key role in investigating the Challenger<\/em> space shuttle disaster on the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers, LLB \u201937.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isidor Isaac Rabi 1919<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(Played by David Krumholtz)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A longtime friend of Oppenheimer\u2019s, Rabi was a consultant at Los Alamos. He attended the Trinity nuclear test and allegedly won the betting pool on its yield (18 kilotons). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Bethe, he testified for Oppenheimer at the 1954 security hearing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rabi won the physics Nobel in 1944, less than a year before the Trinity test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maj. Gen. Kenneth Nichols \u201932, MS \u201933<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(Played by Dane DeHaan)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depicted as a villain in the film, Nichols\u2014who served as district engineer for the Manhattan Project\u2014initiated the 1954 security hearing against Oppenheimer. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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He was also the project’s deputy director under Leslie Groves (portrayed by Matt Damon), and later became general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Philip Morrison<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(Played by Harrison Gilbertson)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morrison was a Los Alamos group leader who helped calculate the amount of plutonium needed for the bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He later traveled to Hiroshima as part of the Manhattan Project\u2019s mission to assess its damage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Like Feynman, he was recruited by Bethe to Cornell\u2019s physics faculty, serving from 1946\u201365 despite tensions over his past Communist activity. And like Bethe, he became an outspoken advocate for nuclear nonproliferation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz, PhD \u201951<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(Played by Josh Zuckerman)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lomanitz was a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Oppenheimer\u2019s while in graduate school at Berkeley\u2019s Radiation Lab, but his Communist affiliations and union organizing prevented him from joining the Manhattan Project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was indicted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1949 and eventually finished his PhD at Cornell under Feynman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More Big Red Oppenheimer<\/em> connections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dozens of other Cornellians played roles at Los Alamos and in support of the Manhattan Project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With many physics faculty returning to campus after service on the project, department leadership pressured the Board of Trustees to support a program in nuclear physics in order to retain top talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In January 1946, the board formally approved creation of a Laboratory of Nuclear Studies<\/a>, with a coordinating committee led by Bethe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The very next item listed in the trustee meeting minutes: the hiring of future Cornell president Dale Corson as an assistant professor of physics.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oppenheimer himself visited the Hill in spring 1946, living at Telluride while giving six lectures on \u201catomic physics in civilization\u201d in Bailey Hall over two weeks as part of the University\u2019s Messenger Lecture series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He returned in 1949 to speak at a symposium on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Freedom and Responsibility in the Contemporary Crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Oppenheimer\u2019s brother, Frank, nearly joined the Cornell faculty in the late 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blacklisted from academia due to his earlier affiliation with the Communist Party, Frank kept in touch with his close friend and Los Alamos alumnus, physics professor Robert Wilson, who had arranged a job offer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the offer was contingent on signing what amounted to a loyalty oath, denying involvement with the Communist Party, and Frank declined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oppenheimer himself visited the Hill in spring 1946, living at Telluride while giving six lectures on “atomic physics in civilization.”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

During Oppenheimer<\/em>\u2019s climax, <\/em>two non-physicist Cornellians play small roles off-screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1959, the U.S. Senate held a confirmation hearing for Secretary of Commerce nominee Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.), who helped orchestrate the revocation of Oppenheimer\u2019s security clearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the many senators who voted against Strauss\u2019s confirmation are Thomas Hennings Jr. 1924 and future presidential candidate Edmund Muskie, LLB \u201939. The 86th U.S. Congress remains the only time that two Cornellians have served in the Senate together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An expert on Big Red lore, <\/em>Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/em><\/a> teaches \u201cThe First American University,\u201d a wildly popular spring semester course on Cornell history.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published February 26, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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