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During the war, Gen. Groves knew he had a good percentage of Communists in his staff, but he signed for both of the Oppenheimers. It was war time expedience. Political discussion of...
They made Pu-239. This is where neutron contagioning was learned. They were kin to ORL. One nice history book exists about them. It's selection was an interesting choice...
Oppenheimer's brother also lost his job and took up cattle ranching, but von Neumann, Metropolis, Fermi, Feynman, Bethe, Bradbury, Segre, Einstein, Bohr, Kistiakowsky, Wilson, Bacher, Manley, Kellog, Weisskopf, etc all went on to do their work. While a few were affected, resulting in personal tragedies, the vast majority continued on.
Productivity continued until the late 60s when financial constraints from the Vietnam war etc finally put the rein on sciences growth. Until then the number of scientists in the states had an (unsustainable) exponential rate of growth.
No. I do have an interest in history in general, the history of science, and in particular the history of science at Los Alamos. As a result I have read Rhodes's "The Making of the Atomic plant", one or two histories of Oppenheimer, and a few other pertinent texts. FWIW while I have been acquainted with a few that were there and more of their immediate successors, I arrived at the lab in the 80s, most of the participants were already dead. I tried to let my predecessors have their privacy, (more out of my shyness than true respect) although I was present when John Manley and a few others discussed Rhodes's "The Making of the Atomic plant."
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