oppenheimer

One of my favorite references to him is a recommendation[1] written by Oppenheimer about Feynman.

Tesla & Edison gave the world electricity, Von Braun & Goddard brought us to space, and Oppenheimer unleashed the atom bomb.

I like that it goes in depth about the characters involved, too -- Oppenheimer was a fascinating person.

For every Robert Oppenheimer who has a doubt and raises the moral question, there is an Edward Teller who is charging ahead doubt free.

We don't consider Robert J Oppenheimer or Albert Einstein mass murderers even though their work very directly contributed to the deaths of thousands of civilians.

The later was ok, but it's sort of fictionalized and the Oppenheimer series covers the same events far more accurately and at much greater length.

Both Sakharov and Oppenheimer realised this, but it was too late.

I'm looking forward to reading this, Oppenheimer was a very rare breed of intellectual.

The BBC Oppenheimer miniseries is probably the best I've watched on it, though it's not just about the atomic bomb in WW2.

Braid is about the history of the atomic bomb, and Tim is actually Oppenheimer trying to reach the princess (the atomic bomb) When you find out how to climb that hidden ladder in the epilogue, you can catch the princess, and she explodes.

The line was: "He's a second Dirac, only this time human." Edit: to be fair Oppenheimer was quoting Wigner...

Robert Oppenheimer" doesn't present Teller in a particularly favorable light - he is presented as being very political, scheming and rather two faced (i.e.

Exactly this same culture is documented in Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine", and if you read biographies of Oppenheimer, Feynmann etc the same was going on back in the 40s.

Like many other people including Robert Oppenheimer, Rosalind Franklin died before she might have gotten a Nobel.

Oppenheimer) had received some of their education at a european university or studied under someone who had.

And, would you say that James Clapper's intellect was in the same ballpark as those of Leslie Groves and Robert Oppenheimer?