Article ID: CBB001320407

A Physicist for All Seasons: Part II (2013)

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The second part of this interview covers Frank Oppenheimer's move to the University of California at Berkeley and wartime work at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the electromagnetic-separation plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and at Los Alamos, New Mexico (1941-1945); his postwar research at Berkeley (1945-1947); his appointment at the University of Minnesota in 1947 and firing two years later after being required to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee; his decade as a rancher in Colorado (1949-1959) and high-school science teacher toward the end of this period; his research at the University of Colorado in Boulder after 1959; his year as a Guggenheim Fellow at University College London in 1965; and his founding of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. California, in 1969. He also discusses his wartime relations with his older brother Robert and postwar events in Robert's life, including his Hearings before the Personnel Security Board of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954

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Description An interview with Frank Oppenheimer.


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Authors & Contributors
Underwood, Martin C.
Sunderland, Mary Evelyn
Sopka, Katherine Russell
Sopka, Elisabeth M.
Sherwin, Martin J.
Schweber, Silvan Sam
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Manhattan Project
Biographies
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Physics
Science and war; science and the military
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
England
Italy
Berkeley (California, U.S.)
Ohio (U.S.)
Japan
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
University of California, Berkeley
Cavendish Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
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