3 real historical locations · Ukraine, United States
The story of Stanislaw Ulam, a Polish-Jewish mathematician who fled Europe for America and joined the Manhattan Project, helping design the hydrogen bomb. It explores the moral weight of scientific discovery and the immigrant experience in wartime America.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Ukraine, United States.
Polish-Jewish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam joins the Los Alamos project — the 2020 film traces his intellectual and moral journey as a refugee who helped bui...
Stanislaw Ulam (1909-1984) fled Poland in 1939 and joined Los Alamos in 1943. He made crucial contributions to the hydrogen bomb's design after the war. At Los Alamos he worked alongside Fermi, Teller and von Neumann....
View location →Stanisław Ulam grows up in the brilliant mathematical culture of pre-war Lwów, gathering at the Scottish Café with Banach, Steinhaus, and other towering mind...
The Lwów School of Mathematics was one of the most productive in the world in the 1930s. Most of its Jewish members were murdered in the Holocaust. Ulam escaped to the US; most of his family did not.
View location →Ulam arrives at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study as a refugee, encountering von Neumann and Einstein — and eventually receives the call from Oppenhei...
Princeton's IAS became a refuge for European Jewish intellectuals fleeing Nazism. Einstein, Gödel, and von Neumann were all there. Ulam's friendship with von Neumann brought him into the Manhattan Project.
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