Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has it all wrong. The eponymous Robert Oppenheimer, who served as the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the development of the atomic bomb, did not usher in a new technological age Enrico Fermi was the true architect of that epochal era.

About Enrico Fermi

September 29, 2023, marks the 122nd birth date of the taciturn Italian physicist whose discoveries with uranium made possible the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb and the nuclear age itself.