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I don't understand your complaint. Oppenheimer was a good physicist but nothing spectacular. The idea he did novel worthy stuff (whatever that means anyway) is
by bigbacaloa 3y ago
I don't understand your complaint. Oppenheimer was a good physicist but nothing spectacular. The idea he did novel worthy stuff (whatever that means anyway) is not much shared by professional physicists, whatever their politics.
- Beldin 3y agoThe article makes the argument that he did Nobel-level-worthy work. There are a few reasons Oppenheimer is remembered today, including reasons having to do with physics. Unlike most physicists from 1900-1950.
- willis936 3y agoI'm having trouble coming up with a more spectacular physics experiment than orchestrating the first fission chain reaction. It's so spectacular that it's put on 70 mm film 70 years later.