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2026-05-25 10:42 UTC

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz If we are to believe the history reported, the man in charge of creating the atomic bomb was extremely clumsy in the lab, too. 😃

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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-25 11:59

@kimlockhartga@beige.party - who was in charge of creating the atomic bomb?

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@tpfto@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-25 12:48

@kimlockhartga@beige.party > And in Britain, [Oppenheimer] had a rather difficult time: He tried joining an experimental group, and there was some sort of serious trouble. I can’t remember what the trouble was, but it was really quite serious. He left Britain and went to Germany. And there, he began working under Max Born and decided that he was a theorist, not an experimenter. He would never have been a decent experimenter, he was altogether too nervous. He never stopped smoking, he always had a cigarette in his mouth. He was a very nervous, tense man. From https://thebulletin.org/premium/2023-07/he-did-not-speak-the-ordinary-language-memories-of-oppie-from-a-manhattan-project-physicist/ (cc. @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)

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