Robert Oppenheimer said, "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent." Recalling a verse from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita, where Vishnu assumes his multi-armed form to impress upon the price the gravity of his ...
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one ...
"I have become death, the destroyer of worlds," he said in an interview in 1965. Julius Robert Oppenheimer. This quote was taken from the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu sacred text. Some historians, such as University of Massachusetts Dartmouth professorJames A. Hijiya, noted in an essay thatOppenh...
In his latest film, the director examines the efforts of the physicist and his race to build the atomic bomb that ended World War II. What happened after the war proved to be an entirely different power struggle, as Oppenheimer was accused of being a Rus
J. Robert Oppenheimer:I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds J. Robert Oppenheimer:I feel we have blood on our hands J. Robert Oppenheimer:We had a very interesting study group this summer. Perhaps, too interesting. Much of it was Edward Teller taking us down some pretty strange paths...
inNew Mexico, where hisLos Alamosteam first tested the bomb, Oppenheimer famously recalled the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one." and "now I am become death, the destroyer of ...
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Oppenheimer was among those who observed the Trinity test in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945. He later remarked that the explosion brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." In August ...
“ I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.[25][26] ” Education Oppenheimer attended Harvard University, where he majored in chemistry, graduating summa cum laude in just three years.[27] One of his physics professors, Percy Bridgman, noted in his graduate-school recommendation that "it...
During the 1920s, Oppenheimer kept himself aloof of worldly matters, and claimed not to have learned of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 until some time after the fact. Only when he became involved with Jean Tatlock, the daughter of a Berkeley literature professor, in 1936, did he show any...