The biographer who inspired Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film Oppenheimer

<p>This episode of the <em>Physics World Stories</em> podcast features an interview with <a href="https://kaibird.com/">Kai Bird</a>, co-author of the book that inspired the recent blockbuster film <em>Oppenheimer</em>, directed by Christopher Nolan. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, <a href="https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/kai-bird-and-martin-j-sherwin"><em>American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer</em></a> is an exploration of the brilliant and enigmatic physicist who led the project to develop the world’s first atomic weapons.</p> <p>Oppenheimer is a fascinating but complicated character for a biographer to tackle. Despite excelling in his leadership of the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer’s conscience was torn by the power he had unleashed on the world. “<a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/manhattan-project-robert-oppenheimer#:~:text=As%20he%20witnessed%20the%20first,but%20also%20the%20most%20misunderstood">Now I am become Death, the d...