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Subject: Re: Albert Einstein vs Robert Oppenheimer !

Author: Sally Weltrop

Date: 16:05:31 05/09/05

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On May 09, 2005 at 10:05:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 09, 2005 at 00:05:13, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>This is a very interesting game
>>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/news/2005/games/einstein01.htm
>
>
>I actually met Oppenheimer.  I was giving a talk on parallel programming at Los
>Alamos in the 80's, and he showed up to listen.  Talked with him for a good
>while after the primary talk was over...  He walked with me thru the Los Alamos
>museum that had interesting info about him, including letters from the president
>of the US dictating the security requirements he had to live under to avoid (a)
>letting secrets about the manhatten project leak out;  (b) him getting hurt or
>killed by accident.
>

Wow! That must have been a privilege & an honor to talk with such a person. I
bet he was very down to earth?
>was most interesting...



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