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

Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by dmbche on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:08AM (#36813313)

And let's not forget that he released four monumental papers THE SAME YEAR( called Annus Mirabilis, miraculous year)! Brownian motion, Special Relativity, Photoelectric Effect and Mass-Energy Equivalence.

Astonishing!

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by ben_w on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:43AM (#36813645)

Thanks to the timing, I strongly suspect that half of those four — in aggregate, not necessarily two of the four complete items — were from his wife, who was also brilliant.

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