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[19] [23] Lawrence named his son Robert after theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer, his closest friend in Berkeley. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] In 1941, Molly's sister Elsie married Edwin McMillan , [ 21 ] who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 with Glenn T. Seaborg .
In his book Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (2002), Gregg Herken, a senior historian at the Smithsonian Institution, contended, based on newly discovered documentation, that Oppenheimer was a member of the Communist Party. [116]
Ernest Lawrence refused to testify, pleading an attack of ulcerative colitis, but an interview in which Lawrence condemned Oppenheimer was submitted in evidence. [ 260 ] Many top scientists, as well as government and military figures, testified on Oppenheimer's behalf.
The writers say that the speculation was “most likely nasty gossip” spread by Oppenheimer’s peer, fellow physicist Ernest Lawrence who “with a long list of grievances – personal and ...
Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence Another Nobel Prize-winning physicist (in 1939), Ernest Lawrence invented a particle accelerator. He was friendly with Oppenheimer at Berkley, and in the movie, he ...
In response to Szilard's petition, Teller consulted his friend Robert Oppenheimer. Teller believed that Oppenheimer was a natural leader and could help him with such a formidable political problem. Oppenheimer reassured Teller that the nation's fate should be left to the sensible politicians in Washington.
Oppenheimer was born Julius Robert Oppenheimer on April 4, 1904 in New York City, according to the Atomic Archive. He studied at Harvard University and University of Göttingen, where he completed ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9317-9. Herken, Gregg (2002). Brotherhood of the bomb: the tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. New York: H.Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-6588-6. Rhodes, Richard (1986). The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon ...