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She began seeing Robert Oppenheimer in 1936, when she was a graduate student and Oppenheimer was a professor of physics at Berkeley. They met through his landlady, Mary Ellen Washburn, who was a member of the Communist Party , when Washburn held a fundraiser for communist-backed Spanish Republicans .
Jul 21, 2023 · Played by Florence Pugh in Oppenheimer, Tatlock was a psychiatrist, a devoted Communist, and “the most promising girl I ever knew”—but also haunted by darkness.
The bomb’s creator, J Robert Oppenheimer, was said to have christened it thus as a tribute to the great love of his life and former mistress Jean Tatlock, with whom he shared a deep appreciation...
- Annabel Nugent
Jul 20, 2023 · Who was Jean Tatlock? Here's the true story of Robert Oppenheimer's longtime lover, her Communist ties and her death by suicide at the age of 29.
Jan 8, 2024 · Jean Tatlock and J. Robert Oppenheimer met and fell in love in the 1930s. Some believe she was the greatest love of his life, though the relationship ended.
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- Senior News Editor, Biography.Com
In 1936, Jean Tatlock was at medical school at Stanford University, working to become a psychiatrist. She met a young professor of physics at Berkeley, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and they commenced a relationship that would become quite intense.
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Jul 24, 2023 · In Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, actress Florence Pugh plays the woman J. Robert Oppenheimer couldn't forget, Jean Tatlock. What was their real story?
