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April 22, 1904 february 18, 1967 was an american theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the university of california, berkeley. In 1953 he was suspended from secret nuclear research as an alleged communist sympathizer and a security risk after a hearing that was widely decried as a cold war witch hunt. Part 1 of the bbcpbs special covering the exploits of atomic weapons developer and physicist j. This article appeared on wikipedia s main page as todays featured article on april 22, 2005. A charismatic leader of rare good qualities and commonplace flaws, oppenheimer brought an uncommon sensibility to research, teaching, and government science. Jun 25, 2016 my greatuncle, father michael delisle lyons a jesuit, was brought back from the missions of india to supply the beryllium for the initiator trigger. To download this paper as a pdf, please click here.
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