Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:46:41 05/09/05
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On May 09, 2005 at 19:05:31, Sally Weltrop wrote: >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? Yes. In fact, I didn't know who he was until someone from the lab told me... He was just asking questions and talking like anybody else... >>was most interesting...
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