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<p>Early in the movie <em>Oppenheimer</em>, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) visits the Berkeley laboratory where Ernest Lawrence is building a particle accelerator to study nuclear physics. The scene reminded me that the giant magnets from one of those accelerators later came to Âé¶¹´«Ã½, forming the core of the cyclotron at the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory on campus. It is one of several links between Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project and Âé¶¹´«Ã½. </p>August 07, 2023 - 10:51amAndy Fell/blog/oppenheimer-and-uc-davis