Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppenheimer?

Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by bigbacaloa on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:23AM (#36810607)

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.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by Beldin on Friday July 21, 2023 @04:35AM (#36811463)

The 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.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by willis936 on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:35AM (#36812615)

I'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.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by dralley on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:49AM (#36813721)

"the first fission chain reaction" would have been Fermi. Not trying to diminish him here but the first bomb was not the first chain reaction.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by willis936 on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:50AM (#36814483)

The qualifier of "unmoderated" should have been there.

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