J. Robert Oppenheimer's Grandson Isn't Happy With One Part of Christopher Nolan's OPPENEHEIMER

The grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Charles Oppenheimer, has seen Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer and during an interview with Time, he revealed one aspect of the film that he was not happy with, and it involved the poison apple.

Oppenheimer said: "There are parts that I disagree with, but not really because of Nolan. The part I like the least is this poison apple reference, which was a problem in American Prometheus. If you read American Prometheus carefully enough, the authors say, 'We don't really know if it happened.' There's no record of him trying to kill somebody. That's a really serious accusation and it's historical revision."

American Prometheus is the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer that Nolan used as a source for his movie. The poisoned apple does make for an interesting element in the story, and in the film while the physicist is still studying at Cambridge, he isn’t happy with his professor after making him stay late after class, he injects an apple on the professor's desk with poison. But, ultimately he doesn’t go through with his plan and rushes to the classroom in the morning to dispose of the apple.

Oppenheimer went on to say: "There's not a single enemy or friend of Robert Oppenheimer who heard that during his life and considered it to be true. American Prometheus got it from some references talking about a spring break trip, and all the original reporters of that story – there were only two, maybe three – reported that they didn't know what Robert Oppenheimer was talking about. Unfortunately, American Prometheus summarizes that as Robert Oppenheimer tried to kill his teacher and then they [acknowledge that] maybe there's this doubt."

So, don’t think that Oppenheimer actually tried murder his professor because that is apparently unconfirmed speculation.