Oppenheimer

In 1926, 22-year-old doctoral student J. Robert Oppenheimer suffers from homesickness and anxiety while studying under experimental physicist Patrick Blackett at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Upset with Blackett, Oppenheimer retaliates by leaving him a poisoned apple, then narrowly prevents visiting scientist Niels Bohr from eating it. Oppenheimer completes his PhD in physics at the University of Göttingen in Germany, where he meets theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg. He returns to the United States, hoping to expand quantum physics research there, and begins teaching at the University of California, Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology. He meets his future wife, Katherine Puening, a biologist and ex-communist. He also has an intermittent affair with Jean Tatlock, a member of the Communist Party USA, until her suicide a few years later.