Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (143 page)

628
. ‘I appreciate the fact’: Lloyd Garrison to HC, 3.8.1954, JRO papers, LOC

628
. ‘that this might suffice’: Lloyd Garrison to JRO, 3.8.1954, JRO papers, LOC

628
. ‘There is much’: HC to Lloyd Garrison, 5.8.1954, JRO papers, LOC

628
. ‘It is not nearly as clear’: JRO to HC, 3.9.1954, JRO papers, LOC

628
. ‘This letter’: Chevalier (1965), 108

628
. ‘I must’: ibid., 109

629
. ‘Un document exclusif’:
France-observateur
, 2 December 1954, 16–18

629
. ‘in a truncated’: Chevalier (1965), 109

629
. ‘I have no doubts’: ibid., 110

629
. ‘Do what we may’: ibid., 111

629
. ‘I hope to finish it in the spring’: ibid.

629
. a long profile of Edward Teller: ‘Dr Edward Teller’s Magnificent Obsession,’
Life
, 6 September 1954, 60–74

629
. ‘In that event’: ibid., 61

630
. ‘This book’:
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
, November 1954, 357

630
. ‘These two boys’: ibid., 362

630
. ‘a sophomoric science-fiction tale’:
Atomic Scientists Journal
, 4, 1954, 253

630
. an article by Joseph and Stewart Alsop: ‘We Accuse!’
Harper’s Magazine
, October 1954, 25–45

630
. ‘We accuse’: ibid.

631
. ‘Dr Henry D. Smyth’s fair and considered statement’: Pais (2006), 256

631
. ‘cloistered life’: ibid., 272

631
. ‘a direct result’: Goodchild (1980), 266

631
. ‘So far as I was concerned’: Dyson (1979), 76

631
. ‘Physics is complicated’: Thorpe (2006), 254

632
. ‘An Ordering Principle’: see
Proceedings of the Second Rochester Conference
, University of Rochester Report NYO-3046, 87

632
. turned into an article: see Pais, A., ‘Some Remarks on the
V
-Particles’,
Physical Review
, 86 (5) (1952), 663–671

632
. ‘J.R. Oppenheimer’: ibid., 664

632
. ‘strangeness’: see Pais (1997), 336–8

632
. ‘I disappointed him’: Dyson (1979), 76

632
. ‘When I came to Oppenheimer’: ibid., 77

632
. ‘difference of temperament’: ibid.

633
. ‘rejoiced together’: ibid.

633
.
See It Now
: for an extended account of the making of this programme and of its reception, see Wolverton (2008), Chapters 1, 2 and 3.

633
. ‘you find a Nobel Prize winner’: quoted ibid., 16

633
. ‘There isn’t one foot’: ibid., 20

633
. ‘tiptoed into Robert’s office’: Pais (1997), 330

634
. ‘And Professor Einstein’: Wolverton (2008), 31

634
. ‘Well, sir’: ibid., 35

634
. ‘The trouble with secrecy’: ibid., 38

634
. ‘There aren’t secrets’: ibid., 39

634
. ‘lean, almost ascetic face’: quoted ibid., 46

634
. 2,500 letters: ibid., 51

634
. ‘brilliant non sequitur’: Marshak (1970), 94

635
. ‘didn’t know a meson’: quoted in Wolverton (2008), 75

635
. ‘was several hundred larger’:
Eugene Register-Guard
, 21 April 1955, copy in JRO papers, LOC

635
. ‘Not one in 50’: ibid.

635
. ‘For all scientists’: quoted in Wolverton (2008), 61

635
. ‘It is a very special sort of privilege’: Oppenheimer (1957), 12

636
. ‘He loved the history of science’: ibid.

636
. ‘And physicists then said’: ibid., 19

636
. ‘It is clear’: ibid., 20

637
. ‘electrodynamics cannot be’: ibid., 19

637
. ‘two golden decades’: Oppenheimer (1956a), 1

637
. ‘did not arouse the hope’: ibid., 2

637
. ‘His great discoveries’: typescript dated 30.9.1955 in JRO papers, LOC

637
. ‘wonderfully diverse’: Oppenheimer (1956b), 10

637
. ‘what is called in the trade’: ibid.

637
. ‘In some ways’: ibid.

638
. ‘Surely past experience’: ibid., 12

638
. ‘We must make more humane’: ibid., 13

638
. ‘Despite the “peace of mutual terror”’: ibid.

638
. ‘the special problems’: ibid., 10

638
. ‘a historic meeting’: Pais (1997), 351

638
. ‘The τ-meson’: Pais (1997), 351, and Pais (2006), 281

639
. ‘Perhaps some oscillation’: Marshak (1970), 95

640
. ‘hinted at a rising wave’: Pais (2006), 282

640
. Yang and Pais bet John Wheeler: Pais (197), 351

640
. this article was published: ‘Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions’,
Physical Review
, 104 (1), October 1956, 254–8

640
. Oppenheimer’s comment: see Pais (2006), 282

641
. ‘Wu’s experiment’: ibid.

641
. ‘Walked through door’: ibid., 283

641
. ‘The situation’: Yang (1964), 398

641
. ‘Basic concept in physics’: quoted Pais (1997), 358

641
. ‘No one today’: Pais (2006), 283

641
. ‘It was an occasion’: Bernstein (2004), 171–2

641
. ‘truly amazed’: ibid., 174

641
. ‘Nothing that has been written’: ibid.

642
. ‘looked at me’: ibid.

642
. ‘his demeanor’: ibid., 175

642
. ‘I believe in the popularization of science’: Wolverton (2008), 91

642
. ‘What is new’: Bernstein (2004), 187

642
. ‘attached great importance’: Pais (2006), 279

643
. ‘there was other material’: Wolverton (2008), 129

643
. ‘We wouldn’t like to have this’: typewritten transcript, headed ‘Oppenheimer interview’, JRO papers, LOC

643
. ‘Today’: Oppenheimer (1958a), 55

643
. ‘it is almost impossible’: ibid., 57

643
. ‘And as for the recent discovery’: ibid.

643
. ‘trying to explain’: Pais (1997), 380

644
. ‘no intuitive understanding’: interview with MJS, 20.2.1979, quoted B & S, 263 and 413

644
. ‘To an outsider’: Pais (1997), 243

644
. ‘a shadow’: interview with MJS, 11.3.1982, quoted B & S, 565

644
. ‘There came a time’: interview with MJS, 31.7.1979, quoted B & S, 565

644
. ‘Even the lay reader’: Oppenheimer (1958b), 481

644
. ‘All of us’: Oppenheimer (1958c)

645
. ‘a punitive, personal abuse’: Wolverton (2008), 150

645
. ‘Day after weary day’: Pfau (1984), 230

645
. ‘nightmarish quality’: quoted Wolverton (2008), 160

645
. ‘It was now clear’: ibid., 161

645
. ‘unchristianly spirit’: Bernice Brode to JRO, undated, quoted Wolverton (2008), 161

646
. ‘profoundly in anguish’: Oppenheimer (1960), 22

646
. ‘But these three particles’: Oppenheimer (1959), 11

647
. ‘the same men’: ibid.

647
. ‘the ancient question’: ibid.

647
. ‘We may learn’: typed transcript of programme recorded December 1959, JRO papers, LOC

647
. ‘If this next great war occurs’: Oppenheimer (1984), 118

647
. ‘that beautiful poem’: ‘Speech at Opening Session of Conference on Progress in Freedom’, Tenth Anniversary Conference, June 1960, typescript, JRO papers, LOC. The printed version – Oppenheimer (1984), 117–20 – omits these words.

648
. ‘If I cannot be comforted’: Oppenheimer (1984), 120

648
. ‘not merely’: ibid.

648
. ‘we have so largely lost’: ‘Speech at Opening Session of Conference on Progress in Freedom’, typescript, 4. Omitted from the printed version.

648
. ‘terribly ill-planned’: Wolverton (2008), 179

648
. ‘I do not regret’: Goodchild (1980), 274

648
. ‘to discuss various problems’: Society of Science and Man, ‘Prospectus’, July 1958, typescript in JRO papers, LOC

649
. ‘triviality and childishness’: ‘An Afternoon with Professor Oppenheimer’, 2, JRO papers, LOC

649
. ‘a small society’: ibid., 4

649
. ‘out of touch with science’: ibid., 12

649
. ‘fill the air’: ibid., 13

649
. ‘That does not surprise me’: ibid., 20

650
. the island of St John in the Virgin Islands: a detailed account of the Oppenheimers’ time in the Virgin Islands is given in B & S, Chapter 39, from which my account is taken.

650
. ‘is to help students’: Oppenheimer (1964), v

651
. ‘jot down’: Martin E. Marty to JRO, 1.2.1962, JRO papers, LOC

651
. The list he sent them: copy in the JRO papers, LOC, on which a handwritten note says that it was mailed on 9.2.1962

651
. ‘the most extraordinary collection of talent’: quoted Wolverton (2008), 195

652
. ‘Not on your life’: Goodchild (1980), 275

652
. one of three speakers: ‘Talk at the Dedication of the Niels Bohr Library of the History of Physics’, 26.9.1962, 4, JRO papers, LOC

652
. ‘Science and Culture’:
Encounter
, Vol. 19, No. 4, October 1962, 3–10, reprinted in Oppenheimer (1984), 123–38

652
. ‘I went to midtown Manhattan’: Bernstein (2004), 196

653
. ‘Let me end with an anecdote’: ‘The Added Cubit’, typescript, 6, JRO papers, LOC

653
. ‘Readers and writers’:
Encounter
, August 1963, 47

653
. ‘By taking thought’: ibid.

653
. ‘a truth’: ibid., 46

654
. ‘it is almost wholly through the arts’: ibid.

654
. ‘He was out’: Regis (1989), 152

654
. ‘Once in the 1950s’: Pais (2006), 278

654
. ‘Bourbon Manor’: Regis (1989), 151

654
. ‘source of profound bewilderment’: quoted Pais (2006), 278

654
. ‘The faculty meetings’: ibid., 277

655
. ‘It started to dawn’: Pais (1997), 385

655
. ‘just about then’: ibid.

655
. ‘He looked’: Seaborg (2001), 225

655
. The decision was reported:
Physics Today
, June 1963, 21–3

656
. ‘maintain intimacy of discussion’: Agnes Meyer, letter of invitation, 27.2.1963, quoted Thorpe (2006), 274

656
. ‘Up to now’: untitled typescript of JRO’s talk at Seven Springs Farm, June 1963, JRO papers, LOC – quotation on page 5

657
. ‘a recognition of’: ibid., 6

657
. ‘is surely not’: ibid.

657
. ‘I know every person’: quoted Wolverton (2008), 221

657
. ‘this great enterprise’: typescript of JRO’s acceptance speech, undated, JRO papers, LOC

657
. ‘I enjoyed what you had to say’: ‘Brotherly Spirit’,
Newsweek
, 16.12.1963, quoted Wolverton (2008), 222

657
. special issue:
Reviews of Modern Physics
, 36 (2), April 1964

657
. Robert Crease records: Pais (2006), 296

658
. ‘Message’:
Reviews of Modern Physics
, 36 (2), April 1964, 509

658
. ‘Massive Stars, Relativist Polytropes, and Gravitational Radiation’: ibid., 545–5

658
. ‘It is a tribute’: ibid., 545

658
. ‘was rushed down’: Dyson, letter to his parents, 25.4.1964, quoted Pais (2006), 296

658
. ‘I am very pleased’:
San Francisco Examiner
, 24 April 1964, quoted Wolverton (2008), 226

658
. ‘L’Intime et le Commun’: Oppenheimer (1984), 157–66

658
. ‘when the proceedings were published’: ibid., 165

659
. ‘We most of all should try’: ibid., 165–6

659
. ‘Today we live’: ‘The Fraternal Dialogue’, Supplement to the bulletin
From Heart to Heart
, No. 15, November 1964, 2

660
. ‘I begin to wonder’: Heinar Kipphardt,
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: a play freely adapted, on the basis of the documents
, London: Methuen (1967), 106

660
. ‘You make me say things’: JRO to Heinar Kipphardt, 12.10.1964, JRO papers, LOC

661
. ‘The whole damn thing’:
Washington Post
, 13.11.1964, A18, quoted Pais (2006), 268

661
. ‘makes me say’: JRO, statement to the press, 11.11.1964, JRO papers, LOC, quoted Wolverton (2008), 237

661
. When the play was performed in Paris: see Wolverton (2008), 238–9

661
. ‘I have not been for this play’: JRO to John Roberts, 22.2.1965, quoted ibid., 240–1

661
. ‘restrain the production’: ibid., 241

662
. ‘The trouble with Oppenheimer’: see Serber (1998), 183–4

662
. ‘the true story’: HC to JRO, 23.7.1964, JRO papers, LOC

662
. ‘Dear Haakon’: JRO to HC, 7.8.1964, JRO papers, LOC

663
. ‘Had letter from Chevalier’: notes of telephone conversation, 18.3.1965, JRO papers, LOC

663
. ‘physics, of course’:
New York Times
, 25 April 1965, quoted Pais (2006), 297

663
. ‘a general feeling’:
New York Times Magazine
, 15 May 1966, quoted Wolverton (2008), 271

663
. ‘Well, I don’t want to speak for others’: typescript of interview with Martin Agronsky for
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
, 5.8.1965, JRO papers, LOC

664
. ‘Physics and Man’s Understanding’: Oppenheimer (1984), 181–9