/ Campus history Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /blog/oppenheimer-and-uc-davis <p>Early in the movie <em>Oppenheimer</em>, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) visits the Berkeley laboratory where Ernest Lawrence is building a particle accelerator to study nuclear physics. The scene reminded me that the giant magnets from one of those accelerators later came to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis, forming the core of the cyclotron at the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory on campus. It is one of several links between Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project and 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis.&nbsp;</p> August 07, 2023 - 10:51am Andy Fell /blog/oppenheimer-and-uc-davis