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Getting to know Jean Tatlock: Was she Oppenheimer’s ‘truest love’ or the first casualty of his ambition to build the atomic bomb?

Jean Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh in Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer,' was a Stanford-trained psychiatrist who also was destined for 'greatness' before she died as the physicist was leading the Manhattan Project

Jean Tatlock when she was a member of the Community Party in the San Francisco Bay Area (Courtesy of John Tatlock)
Jean Tatlock when she was a member of the Community Party in the San Francisco Bay Area (Courtesy of John Tatlock)
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Jean Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," was a Stanford-trained psychiatrist who also was destined for "greatness" before she died as the physicist was leading the Manhattan Project.

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