Does the portrayal in the movie Oppenheimer match historical facts?

I finally got around to watching Oppenheimer last weekend, and there’s this thing that’s been bugging me ever since. The movie seems to suggest that Oppenheimer wasn’t chosen to lead the Manhattan Project because he was some brilliant physicist (which, don’t get me wrong, he absolutely was), but more because he had this unique ability to wrangle all these massive egos and academic personalities together. Like, there’s all these scenes showing him navigating the drama between different scientists, managing conflicts, keeping everyone focused. It almost felt like they were portraying him more as a project manager who happened to be a physicist, rather than a physicist who happened to be managing a project. And honestly? That actually makes a lot of sense to me. I work in tech, and I’ve seen plenty of brilliant engineers who would be terrible at leading a team of other brilliant engineers. Academic types can be… let’s say “challenging” to work with. Lots of strong opinions, egos, territorial behavior around their research areas. But here’s what I’m curious about - is this actually historically accurate? I’ve been trying to dig into it, but most of what I’m finding online is either super basic “Oppenheimer led the bomb project” stuff or incredibly dense academic papers that are way over my head. #History #Oppenheimer