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Robert Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer, Robert

Oppenheimer, Robert

Professor, University of California; Charter Member, WAAS

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Professor, University of California; Charter Member, WAAS

Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. He was a Charter Member of WAAS.

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Prospects in the Arts and Sciences   ( Knowledge, Science & Values )
Get Full Text in PDF *The words “prospects in the arts and sciences” mean two quite different things to me. One is prophecy: What will the scientists discover and the painters paint, what new forms will alter music, what parts of experience will newly yield to objective description? The other meaning is that of a view: What do we see when we look at the world today and compare it with the past? I am not a prophet; and I cannot very well speak to the first subject, though in many ways I should...