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But there was a problem there
because although as a student, he'd shown himself to be a
brilliant theoretical physicist, in the laboratory,
he was a disaster, and Rutherford was
an applied physicist, so Rutherford turned him down
because although as a student, he'd shown himself to be a
brilliant theoretical physicist, in the laboratory,
he was a disaster, and Rutherford was
an applied physicist, so Rutherford turned him down
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But there was a problem there
because although as a student,
00:00:04.769 --> 00:00:08.972
he'd shown himself to be a
brilliant theoretical physicist,
00:00:08.974 --> 00:00:11.307
in the laboratory,
he was a disaster,
00:00:11.309 --> 00:00:15.311
and Rutherford was
an applied physicist,
00:00:15.313 --> 00:00:16.848
so Rutherford turned him down.
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Movie Summary
The documentary covers Oppenheimer's contribution to nuclear physics as a professor and leader of the Los Alamos Laboratory.
