The life of a brilliant scientist is told in OPPENHEIMER. A Jewish man with an undergraduate degree in chemistry, J Robert Oppenheimer was born and raised in America. He returns to the United States and joins the University of California, Berkeley’s physics department after earning his PhD in physics from the University of Göttingen in Germany in 1927. In this area, he significantly advances theoretical physics, including work in nuclear physics and quantum mechanics. When the US government learns of his talent, they hire him for the Manhattan Project. He is chosen as the project’s director for the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico on his insistence. Watch Oppenheimer on Myflixer com online in HD on your device.