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"Christopher Nolan's #Oppenheimer explores the work of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer & colleagues to create the atomic bomb.

Yet, the film fails to depict a key part of the story, using 2 female scientists as stand-ins for ALL of the women who contributed."

Hundreds of women were essential to the Manhattan Project, including Nobel Prize winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer. But they are largely absent in the #film.

https://www.businessinsider.com/women-manhattan-project-christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-completely-ignored-2023-7 #HistoryRemix #science #history

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Jeffrey P Burdick 2y ago

nostr:npub1khx67x36rsu5y2f3ruuq8crnxndmep88399l2phu50etnfcrkr6q6hgeyg It might be difficult to follow source material about Oppenheimer and tell a story with more women in it. Women were isolated. Men took credit for their work. Their involvement wasn't well documented.

I believe Nolan made an effort to depict them. It might have been a difficult job.

Here's an article from LLNL about Lilli Hornig. In the article she talks about being isolated from her peers.

https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/national-security-science/2021-spring/womens-timeline-feature/