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Oppenheimer: The Real Story

So he went off to Berkeleyand essentially founded the Department ofTheoretical Physics and...

So he went off to Berkeley
and essentially founded the Department of
Theoretical Physics and worked there for the
next 11, 12, 13 years

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- So he went off to Berkeley and essentially founded
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the Department of Theoretical Physics
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and worked there for the next 11, 12, 13 years.
Duration
16 seconds
Views
204
Timestamp in Movie
00:19:45
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.
And he never, you know, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
And he never, you know,
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,