Finn" when combined with alcohol, but there was no alcohol in her blood, despite damage to her pancreas that indicated she was a heavy drinker. As a psychiatrist working in a hospital, she had access to sedatives such as chloral hydrate. The coroner found that she had died at around 4:30 pm on January 4. The cause of death was recorded as "acute edema of the lungs with pulmonary congestion" — drowning in the bathtub. It seems likely that she knelt over the bathtub, took chloral hydrate, and plunged her head into the water. There has been, at times, speculation by historians and her brother Hugh as to whether her death was truly a suicide, as there were some suspicious circumstances. The conspiracy theory that she was murdered by intelligence agents working for the Manhattan Project was bolstered by the 1975 Church Committee, which revealed details of assassinations carried out by American intelligence agencies, and was depicted in the fictional TV series Manhattan. One doctor observed that: "If you were clever and wanted to kill someone, this is the way to do it." Her father had her remains cremated. Legacy In media Florence Pugh is set to depict Jean in the upcoming 2023 biopic film Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan. Natasha Richardson portrayed Jean in the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy by Roland Joffé Notes References 1914 births 1944 suicides People from Ann Arbor, Michigan Vassar College alumni Stanford University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Physicians from California American women psychiatrists American psychiatrists Stanford University School of Medicine alumni American communists Suicides by drowning in the United States Cambridge Rindge and Latin School alumni Bisexual women J. Robert Oppenheimer Members of the Communist Party USA Communist women writers LGBT people from Michigan