Oppenheimer was no stranger to political persecution, and he didn't want Bohm to suffer the same fate.
Oppenheimer uh who I knew slightly uh near near the end of his career and near
Oppenheimer was then Direct ctor and um I gave a talk to talk about my own
Oppenheimer listened to the talk and at the end he he said you remind me of
- Robert Oppenheimer, who was David Bohm's PhD advisor, wanted to bring him squarely onto the new Manhattan Project efforts.
So Oppenheimer had to certify that Bohm had done good work.
And Oppenheimer wrote this beautiful paper in 1939 with his student saying that they believed
without Oppenheimer. How do you strike a balance between that and then exploring this universe that you guys have also created, because it's a fictionalization of the history
And so Oppenheimer gave him a firm recommendation, leave the country and start fresh somewhere else.
So Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, had them run the numbers again.
Or not Oppenheimer's responsibilities, but that job wouldn't be bad.
by Frank Oppenheimer, a brother of Robert Oppenheimer.
-So who would be Oppenheimer?
-Who would be Oppenheimer?
I came across Gary Oppenheimer back in the mid 1980s, when we were both at MCI mail.
And Robert Oppenheimer and his fellow scientists who managed the Manhattan Project were so confident of that technology, which essentially takes two pieces of highly-enriched uranium--as
Petr wrote and directed the videos on Oppenheimer and Japanese swords.
And it was people like Oppenheimer who began to ask the question, well, could stars collapse to form black holes?
- That's the other remarkable thing about Oppenheimer is he's also a central figure in the construction of the bomb.
And Wheeler actually spent decades saying Oppenheimer was wrong.
There's a story that Oppenheimer was sitting outside of the auditorium when Wheeler was coming forth with his declaration, that in fact black holes were the likely end-state
Here you see him with Oppenheimer in the integration of the IAS machine.
That's John von Neumann and Robert Oppenheimer, and they're at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study,
The project's military director General Leslie Groves had to approve Oppenheimer's recruits.
It's also the same thing that we think about in Oppenheimer.
And it was quite astounding that people like Oppenheimer, actually it's probably Oppenheimer's most important theoretical work, who were thinking about nuclear physics
And more people are aware of this now that "Oppenheimer" film is so popular.
And you know, Oppenheimer comes up in there and Lawrence, anybody who's seen the movie.
This is one of my most favorite quotes from Ernest Oppenheimer, the then president of De Beers in 1950.
Now of course, Oppenheimer pops up from time to time, mostly in the first season as this kind of Olympian god.
including people like J. Robert Oppenheimer, John von Neumann, and a little known mathematician named Stanislaw Ulam.
And when asked about it, Oppenheimer sort of said, "Well, I've moved on to other things." - Because you've written in many places
It was also very interesting and infuriating to me that in that famous movie "Oppenheimer" that just came out about Manhattan Project,
So the thing with Oscar's character was to be a kind of Oppenheimer-like character who's conflicted about what he's doing as he's doing it.
And I give you now, Gary Oppenheimer.
Thatís Joseph Stalin with the bomb, Oppenheimer looking like a saint, whether he was or not and Stan Ulam spitting, Edward Teller in the middle and George Kamov pulling the tail of
head thank you and he said that was not a compliment um in fact Oppenheimer and
and this was the point I was trying to illustrate with the story uh Oppenheimer had been rather morose as a young
- Exactly, so ,of course, Oppenheimer, now known as the father of the atomic bomb, he talks about destroyers of worlds,
Couldn't find a job to work in physics anywhere in the US despite having recommendation letters from Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein, and ended up
Strangelove and building the coldest of cold warriors, and Oppenheimer, who was kind of caught in between.
Dr. Mayer, you are the director of the Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology-- Neuroscience-- DR. EMERAN MAYER: The Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience.
In a way, I was thinking more about people like Oppenheimer.
And, uh, then Oppenheimer fired her because she kinda, I think she knew too much.
Julian Bigelow, Herman Goldstein, Robert Oppenheimer who we think was against the hydrogen bomb but was actually being quite supportive, Johnny Von Neumann, all of the engineers that helped.
But really at the same time, 1939, really, Oppenheimer's thinking about black holes.
I just wanted to point out that the, just looking for the first time, it's a 1939 paper from Oppenheimer.
- Yeah, now I have to say that Wheeler, who actually coins the term black hole, gives Oppenheimer quite a terrible time about this.
and in peace time, found themselves returning again to these astrophysical questions, decided that actually Oppenheimer had been right.
Because if you look at, for example, the atomic bomb, a lot of things that they've been reproached to Oppenheimer is the fact that he