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Oppenheimer: The Real Story

Patrick Blackettwas, one supposes, represented to Oppenheimer everything thatOppenheimer...

Patrick Blackett
was, one supposes, represented to Oppenheimer everything that
Oppenheimer felt he wasn't

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Patrick Blackett was, one supposes,
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represented to Oppenheimer
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everything that Oppenheimer felt he wasn't.
Duration
13 seconds
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303
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:41
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.
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
Most people take three years plus to do a PhD, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
Most people take three years plus to do a PhD,
And the result of it is a piece of work - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:16
And the result of it is a piece of work
He then sat about working on research papers. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He then sat about working on research papers.
So within a very short time, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:15
So within a very short time,
Oppenheimer had a queue of American universities - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
Oppenheimer had a queue of American universities
- Oh, by that time, he was already regarded - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:14
- Oh, by that time, he was already regarded
You and I can't understand what quantum is about. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
You and I can't understand what quantum is about.
- Because he could pick and choose, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:14
- Because he could pick and choose,
- So he went off to Berkeley and essentially founded - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:16
- So he went off to Berkeley and essentially founded
And he never, you know, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
And he never, you know,