Female scientists played important roles in the Manhattan Project that created the first atomic bomb during World War II. But you wouldn’t know this from the blockbuster movie, “Oppenheimer.”
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Female scientists who worked on A-bomb mostly absent from ‘Oppenheimer’
You wouldn’t know it from the blockbuster film, but many women were involved in the Manhattan Project during World War II
Perspective by Katie Hafner
and Amy Scharf
August 10, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT