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Oppenheimer: The Real Story

And the most famousphysicist at that time was Ernest Rutherford,who was at Cambridge, and...

And the most famous
physicist at that time was Ernest Rutherford,
who was at Cambridge, and what Oppenheimer wanted was to work with
Ernest Rutherford

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- And the most famous physicist at that time
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was Ernest Rutherford, who was at Cambridge,
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and what Oppenheimer wanted
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was to work with Ernest Rutherford.
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00:14:34
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Apr 13, 2025
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The documentary covers Oppenheimer's contribution to nuclear physics as a professor and leader of the Los Alamos Laboratory.
But there was a problem there because although as a student, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:18
But there was a problem there because although as a student,
Rutherford's colleague was a man called J.J. Thompson, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
Rutherford's colleague was a man called J.J. Thompson,
And as a sort of second best, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:19
And as a sort of second best,
And he spent a year at Cambridge in England - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
And he spent a year at Cambridge in England
He was a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
He was a square peg trying to fit into a round hole.
He wasn't a laboratory physicist, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
He wasn't a laboratory physicist,
It was expected of all the students - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
It was expected of all the students
There's a story that Oppenheimer gave his presentation, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:28
There's a story that Oppenheimer gave his presentation,
There are other reports of people finding him curled up - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:15
There are other reports of people finding him curled up
Patrick Blackett was, one supposes, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
Patrick Blackett was, one supposes,
Patrick Blackett was notoriously well connected. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
Patrick Blackett was notoriously well connected.
He was superbly good in the laboratory. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He was superbly good in the laboratory.
And Oppenheimer once went on holiday to Corsica - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:26
And Oppenheimer once went on holiday to Corsica
Harvard had been explicitly anti-Semitic. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
Harvard had been explicitly anti-Semitic.
That doesn't seem to have troubled Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
That doesn't seem to have troubled Oppenheimer
I think what bothered him at Cambridge - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:20
I think what bothered him at Cambridge
And I think this bothered him to his very core. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
And I think this bothered him to his very core.
Salvation came to throw Oppenheimer a lifeline was Max Born, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:14
Salvation came to throw Oppenheimer a lifeline was Max Born,
Oppenheimer got to know him, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
Oppenheimer got to know him,
Born was so impressed with Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
Born was so impressed with Oppenheimer