Illustration of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He may have tried to poison his professor with an apple It was a battle Oppenheimer would lose, and the defeat marked him for the rest of his life.Įinstein walked to his office and, nodding at Oppenheimer, said to his secretary, 'There goes a narr. After bumping into Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he spoke with his colleague about the growing efforts to revoke his security clearance.Įinstein counseled his colleague that he needn't submit himself to a grueling investigation and trial by the Atomic Energy Commission he could just walk away.īut Oppenheimer replied that he would do more good from inside the Washington establishment than from the outside, and that he had decided to stay and fight. One such instance was a disagreement he had with Albert Einstein during the height of the McCarthy Red Scare. Oppenheimer's stunning intellect and vast learning didn't always overcome his emotional immaturity and political naivety. (Image credit: Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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