Teller later testified against Oppenheimer during his 1954 security hearing. He died in 2003 at the age of 95. Josh Hartnett was cast as Ernest Lawrence, a physicist who was friends with Oppenheimer.

Robert Oppenheimer's biopic ... The war drama features Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who played a key role in the Manhattan Project. Casey Affleck plays ...

Robert Oppenheimer's work with fellow scientists ... physicist Edward Teller and Josh Hartnett as nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

Director Christopher Nolan assembled an all-star cast for his summer blockbuster “Oppenheimer,” a biopic about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the Manhattan Project.

It’s at Berkeley that the trajectory of Oppenheimer’s life dramatically shifts, after news breaks that Germany has invaded Poland. By that point, he has become friends with Ernest Lawrence ...

Too bad he didn't warn his costar Josh Harnett before he decided to gain 30 pounds to play the famed physicist Ernest Lawrence in "Oppenheimer." "He was like, 'You're never gonna get that off ...

Herken is an emeritus professor of history at the University of California and the author of Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller ...

Instead, Truman and the presidents to come would rely on the advice of Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller (played by Josh Hartnett and Benny Safdie in “Oppenheimer,” respectively). Unlike ...

AP Photo, File During his time teaching at Berkeley, Oppenheimer became friends and colleagues with Ernest Lawrence, who had turned the Radiation Laboratory into a major American center for ...