Quote from: RE on May 28, 2024, 02:09 AMTell it to his non Manhattan project accomplishments.Quote from: TDoS on May 27, 2024, 07:24 PMQuote from: RE on May 27, 2024, 04:16 PMTrue Genius is never recognized in your own lifetime. 8)Tell it to Einstein and Oppenheimer. Marie Curie. Newton? Darwin? Tesla? Galileo?
Oppenheimer wasn't a genius.
What about J. Robert Oppenheimer as a scientist stands out after all these years? Mark Paris, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos, takes a look at some of the high points in a column for Physics Today, tracing Oppenheimer's important contributions to the emergence of quantum theory. Oppenheimer achieved influential work in the spectral properties of molecules, offered an understanding of cosmic rays and neutron stars, and predicted what would come to be called "black holes." Much of that work came while founding the leading school of theoretical physics in America.
Let me guess..you fault him because he didn't go to the right high schule where the cool kids all went? ;D