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Oppenheimer: The Real Story

And he never, you know, had more than a dozengraduate students to oversee but they all...

And he never, you know, had more than a dozen
graduate students to oversee but they all adored him

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And he never, you know,
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had more than a dozen graduate students to oversee
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but they all adored him.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
196
Timestamp in Movie
00:20:01
Uploaded
Apr 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
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The documentary covers Oppenheimer's contribution to nuclear physics as a professor and leader of the Los Alamos Laboratory.
He turned out to be a lousy teacher initially. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He turned out to be a lousy teacher initially.
- There were elements there of traits - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:23
- There were elements there of traits
All of those would mark him for the rest of his life. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
All of those would mark him for the rest of his life.
- But he learned eventually to become charismatic, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
- But he learned eventually to become charismatic,
- He was, by all accounts, an extremely charismatic teacher - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:15
- He was, by all accounts, an extremely charismatic teacher
That prefigured the motivating - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
That prefigured the motivating
He loved reading French literature and poetry - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
He loved reading French literature and poetry
And he also was intrigued, at one point, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:26
And he also was intrigued, at one point,
Yeah, he was very much a polymath, very weird guy. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
Yeah, he was very much a polymath, very weird guy.
- When Oppenheimer arrived in Berkeley, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
- When Oppenheimer arrived in Berkeley,
He got to know Ernest Lawrence, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:17
He got to know Ernest Lawrence,
So uninformed was he about politics. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
So uninformed was he about politics.
This would change very soon after that - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
This would change very soon after that
His students were coming - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
His students were coming
If you were a student of Oppenheimer, that opened doors. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
If you were a student of Oppenheimer, that opened doors.
But in the Depression, his students were finding - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
But in the Depression, his students were finding
And they got to find out what it was like - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
And they got to find out what it was like
And as they were still in touch with Oppenheimer, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
And as they were still in touch with Oppenheimer,
And in the 1930s, with the rise of fascism in Europe, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
And in the 1930s, with the rise of fascism in Europe,
- And almost all of his ex-students - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
- And almost all of his ex-students