As visitors weave through the slender trunks of the ponderosa pines and cottonwoods, their pace quickens on glimpsing the unassuming log and stone cottage nestled discreetly among the trees.
With eager curiosity, they press their noses against the windows, gazing inside at the seemingly mundane furnishings from the 1940s — chairs, a desk and a blackboard — and marvel in hushed tones about the work that once went on inside its walls.
J Robert Oppenheimer’s house at Los Alamos, where he lived while overseeing the Manhattan Project and the race to create the first atomic bomb, has for decades been a place of pilgrimage for those who know their Feynmans from their Bohrs.
Now, however, it is the allure of Hollywood celebrity rather than scientific
