Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 08:40:48 05/10/05
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On May 10, 2005 at 10:45:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 09, 2005 at 21:04:01, Andrew R. Case 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. >>> >>>was most interesting... >> >> >> Dr. Hyatt, >> >> Are you sure it was the same Oppenheimer(Robert)? >>I searched the web and found that he passed away in 1967. >> >> regards, Andrew R. Case > > >Good question. I just found the same thing. I really have no idea about the >details. The guy I met is Los Alamos was in his 70's at least. And while he >didn't introduce himself I believe Burton Wendroff is the one that told me who >he was. Now I'm not so sure... And no idea whether he had any kids or not with >the same name and same career interests. Maybe it was Hans Bethe? :-) Thanks, Eugene
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