From enthusiastic UC Berkeley professors to ordinary Berkeleyans, the anticipation surrounding the film is palpable. The Pulitzer-winning 2005 book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird, on which the film is based, has sold out at many local bookstores, requiring many to reorder them. At press time, 22 patrons were still waiting on the two copies of the book the Berkeley Public Library has in circulation. And at UC Berkeley, the Physics South building (formerly LeConte Hall), where Oppenheimer taught from 1929 to 1943, has been fielding inquiries from enthusiasts hoping to glimpse the famous physicist's former office.
This is where all the physics people who made nukes, eventually, had their little parties, says Anna Myles, whose mother, Kristin Linsley, has owned the home since the late 1990s.
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