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The growing pains of Robert Oppenheimer

Nature volume 286, pages 827–828 (1980)Cite this article

Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections.

Edited by Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner. Pp.250. (Harvard University Press: 1980.) $20, £12.

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  1. Emeritus Wykeham Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He spent 18 months at Los Alamos working under Oppenheimer.

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