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Robert Oppenheimer

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Name: Robert Oppenheimer

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

American Physicists and the Under-rating of Experiments [Uncertain Principles]

At Scientific American’s blog network, Ashutosh Jogalekar muses about the “greatest American physicist” , eventually voting for Josiah Willard Gibbs, one of the pioneers of statistical mechanics. As both times I took StatMech (as an undergrad and in ... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Ernest Lawrence, Exclusion Principle, John Bardeen, Robert Oppenheimer

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Outsider, Spiritual Seeker, and Father of the A-Bomb

ROBERT OPPENHEIMER: A Life Inside the Center By Ray Monk Doubleday, 825 pp., illustrated, $37.50-book "There aren't any secrets about the world of nature," Robert Oppenheimer told journalist Edward R. Murrow in 1954. It had been nine years since the bombs ... [Published HighBeam Research - May 20 2013]

Entities: Robert Oppenheimer, Ray Monk, Edward R Murrow

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

The Man With the Bomb

Why Robert Oppenheimer haunts us still.0Opinions0ShareRobert Oppenheimer oversaw the design and construction of the first atomic bombs. The American theoretical physicist wasn’t the only one involved—more than 130,000 people contributed their skills to ... [Published Daily Beast - May 19 2013]

Entities: Robert Oppenheimer, Ray Monk, Lewis Strauss, Bomb, Edward Teller

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

UCLA

2 UCLA faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

Two professors from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have been elected by their peers to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.Election to the academy ... [Published EurekAlert! - May 10 2013]

Entities: UCLA, Orville Wright, University of California, Los Angeles School of...

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

UCR: Plant cell researcher named to NAS

Xuemei Chen, a professor of plant cell and molecular biology at UCR, has been elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, or NAS, for her excellence in original scientific research.Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist ... [Published Riverside Press Enterprise - May 03 2013]

Entities: NAS, RNA, Robert Oppenheimer, Meristem, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Top Scientific Honor for Two Faculty

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University archaeologist James A. Brown and Dale Mortensen, who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, have been elected members of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).Membership in the NAS ... [Published Northwestern University - May 02 2013]

Entities: NAS, Nobel Prize, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Labor

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

University of California Berkeley

From fascist Europe to U.C. Berkeley: Students help uncover a history of intellectual migration

It must have been an Indiana Jones moment for Stuart Fine. Poring over rare documents, many of which had been boxed up for decades, the 19-year-old U.C. Berkeley freshman uncovered a lost world.Fine was one of nine students taking part in a project of ... [Published Jewish News Weekly - May 02 2013]

Entities: University of California Berkeley, Frank Oppenheimer, Refugees, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Karp going strong at 85

Ira Karp doesn't know if the Senior Games will present him with a ribbon or medal or anything on Saturday. Karp plans on running the half-mile at 9 a.m., the quarter-mile at 10 a.m. and the mile at 11 a.m. on Stanford's track. Considering Karp is 85 years ... [Published Individual.com - May 01 2013]

Entities: Robert Oppenheimer, Body Mass Index, Townsend Harris, United States Government, John Reid

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

J Robert Oppenheimer is born, April 22, 1904

Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist whose name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer is also seen as ... [Published EDN.com - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Robert Oppenheimer, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, Neutron, Albert Einstein

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

Letters to editor/McConnell taping: April 14

Search for DealsSearch local inventory, coupons and morePowered byRecent Headlines3 hours ago3 hours agoMcConnell a coward and a dictatorRegarding the secret taping of part of his campaign staff meeting, Sen. Mitch McConnell either wants to show the crazies ... [Published Kentucky.com - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: Mitch McConnell, Charles Edward Pogue, Robert Oppenheimer, Meriwether Lewis

First reported Apr 05 2013 - Updated Apr 05 2013 - 1 reports

Little Boys With Toys

The fact that North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is threatening the world with nuclear holocaust does what World War I did to many theologians who had presumed that history was on a course of inevitable progress. It is not. The power of death is ... [Published God's Politics Blog - Apr 05 2013]

Entities: Robert Oppenheimer, World War I, Holocaust, Kim Jong-un

First reported Mar 21 2013 - Updated Mar 21 2013 - 1 reports

He is a second Dirac, only this time human

Another historical letter sent by a reader. My understanding is that Feynman was not appointed at Berkeley because of Birge's anti-semitism: "One Jew (Oppenheimer) is enough," he is reported to have said.CONFIDENTIALNovember 4, 1943Professor R. T. BirgeChairman, ... [Published Information Processing - Mar 21 2013]

Entities: Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Laity, Anti-Semitism

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ROBERT OPPENHEIMER: A Life Inside the Center By Ray Monk Doubleday, 825 pp., illustrated, $37.50-book "there aren't any secrets about the world of nature" Robert Oppenheimer told journalist Edward R Murrow in 1954. It had been nine years since the bombs he'd helped develop as leader of the...

Outsider, Spiritual Seeker, and Father of the A-Bomb [Published HighBeam Research - May 20 2013]

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American Physicists and the Under-rating of Exp... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 22 hours ago]
Outsider, Spiritual Seeker, and Father of the A... [Published HighBeam Research - May 20 2013]
Questioning “Final Days of War” – British and A... [Published LankaWeb - May 20 2013]
The Man With the Bomb [Published Daily Beast - May 19 2013]
Ending the Korean War [Published UCLA International Institue - May 17 2013]
2 UCLA faculty elected to National Academy of S... [Published EurekAlert! - May 10 2013]
UCR: Plant cell researcher named to NAS [Published Riverside Press Enterprise - May 03 2013]
Top Scientific Honor for Two Faculty [Published Northwestern University - May 02 2013]
From fascist Europe to U.C. Berkeley: Students ... [Published Jewish News Weekly - May 02 2013]
Karp going strong at 85 [Published Individual.com - May 01 2013]
J Robert Oppenheimer is born, April 22, 1904 [Published EDN.com - Apr 22 2013]
When the World Went Digital [Published American Scientist - Apr 18 2013]
The Jewish Desolation [Published Weekend Post - Apr 15 2013]
Letters to editor/McConnell taping: April 14 [Published Kentucky.com - Apr 14 2013]
Andrew Wiles: 60th birthday [Published The Reference Frame - Apr 10 2013]
Little Boys With Toys [Published God's Politics Blog - Apr 05 2013]
Comment on Round 3, Match 1: Bomb vs The Fault ... [Published School Library Journal - Mar 29 2013]
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Historically Speaking: ?The Girls of Atomic Cit... [Published Oak Ridger - Mar 26 2013]
He is a second Dirac, only this time human [Published Information Processing - Mar 21 2013]

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American Physicists and the Under-rating of Exp... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 22 hours ago] At Scientific American’s blog network, Ashutosh Jogalekar muses about the “greatest American physicist” , eventually voting for Josiah Willard Gibbs, one of the pioneers of statistical mechanics. As both times I took StatMech (as an undergrad and in ...
Andrew Wiles: 60th birthday [Published The Reference Frame - Apr 10 2013] Andrew Wiles , the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem, is 60 tomorrow. Congratulations.In 1996, Simon Singh produced this 50-minute documentary for the BBC Horizon series. And I just watched it again and liked it a lot. Wiles' father was a chaplain ...
Little Boys With Toys [Published God's Politics Blog - Apr 05 2013] The fact that North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is threatening the world with nuclear holocaust does what World War I did to many theologians who had presumed that history was on a course of inevitable progress. It is not. The power of death is ...
He is a second Dirac, only this time human [Published Information Processing - Mar 21 2013] Another historical letter sent by a reader. My understanding is that Feynman was not appointed at Berkeley because of Birge's anti-semitism: "One Jew (Oppenheimer) is enough," he is reported to have said.CONFIDENTIALNovember 4, 1943Professor R. T. BirgeChairman, ...
Exploratorium's Experience Experts Deliver Awes... [Published ReadWriteWeb - Feb 12 2013] A museum under construction is an awesome scene. It's like peeking backstage before the premiere of Broadway play, seeing the outer experience taking shape. The Exploratorium - a unique museum of science, art and human perception - is still two months ...