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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The Life and Times of Oppenheimer
During the war, he was the superb kind of wise lab director. Oppenheimer wrote pretty good poetry. He wanted to read the Begov and Gita in the original Sanskrit. Not all the physicists who did first class work did have high IQs. They took some other qualities as well. It took the zitsflies sitting down in a chair and focusing on one thing until you get through to it. That's why Oppenheimer never won a Nobel Prize.
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