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J. Robert Oppenheimer with Albert Einstein Шаблон:Circa

Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer are physicists of twentieth century who captured popular imagination with their pioneering contributions in the world of physics.

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With their revolutionary achievements in the world of Physics, both Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer became iconic figures in the history of twentieth century science.Шаблон:Sfn In 1919, after the successful verification of the pathway of light, from faraway stars bending near the sun, a phenomenon which was predicted earlier by Einstein's theory of gravity, Einstein was acclaimed as “the most revolutionary innovator in physics” since Issac Newton.Шаблон:Sfn Oppenheimer, who was called the "boy-wonder" of the American physics community during the 1930s, became a popular public figure from 1945 onwards after overseeing the first ever successful testing of nuclear weapons in the World.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

After World War II, both Einstein and Oppenheimer lived and worked in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study, where Oppenheimer also served as its director from 1947 to 1966.Шаблон:Sfn

Views about each other

Einstein in his last twenty-five years of life focussed solely on working out the Unified field theory without considering its reliability nor questioning his own approach. This led to him loose connections with the wider physics community.Шаблон:Sfn Oppenheimer wrote that Einstein's tradition in his last twenty-five years had in "a certain sense failed him".Шаблон:Sfn Einstein was sceptical about Quantum theory which Oppenheimer advocated.Шаблон:Sfn Oppenheimer noted that Einstein tried in vain to prove that there are inconsistencies in the Quantum theory, and that Einstein, very ambitiously, tried "to combine the understanding of electricity and gravitation" so that he could explain what he considered to be an apparent illusory discretenessШаблон:Emdashthe existence of the various particles of nature.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

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