- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:07, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
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Jean Tatlock
edit... that it is believed that Robert Oppenheimer named the Trinity nuclear test as a tribute to Jean Tatlock?Source: "One theory is that J. Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the U.S. government’s laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the director of science for the Manhattan Project, which designed and built the bomb, chose the name as an allusion to the poetry of John Donne. Oppenheimer’s former mistress, Jean Tatlock, a student at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was a professor there, had introduced him to Donne’s work before she committed suicide, in early 1944." Wellerstein, Alex (July 16, 2015). "The First Light of Trinity". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- Reviewed: Paradises Lost
Improved to Good Article status by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:50, 13 January 2017 (UTC).
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
- Other problems:
- Some minor copy-editing may still be required, e.g. "her married on November 1" should be "he married on November 1", I think.
Hook eligibility:
- Cited: - The New Yorker source does not support the hook as it does not suggest that the choice was a tribute to Tatlock; just that she had introduced him to Donne's work. And her involvement seems only a tentative theory as it also says "Oppenheimer later claimed not to recall where the name came from."
- Interesting: - Saying that she was Oppenheimer's mistress might be better.
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Overall: 
Andrew D. (talk) 18:30, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
I thought "is believed that" would be weasel-y enough. How about:
- ALT1 ... that Jean Tatlock had a romantic relationship with Robert Oppenheimer? Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:59, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
- ALT1b ... that Jean Tatlock had a romantic relationship with Robert Oppenheimer, introducing him to poetry and politics?
New reviewer needed since previous reviewer proposed ALT1b. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:12, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
- Length, Date, QPQ, Earwigs (it flags the quotes but nothing else), and Cite all checkout for ALT1B. Mifter (talk) 21:20, 12 February 2017 (UTC)