![]() Worldly in many ways, he was something of a naïf. that those European colleagues sometimes thought him a chauvinist. A child of privilege whose very luggage excited discussion among his cash-strapped European colleagues, he identified early with left-wing causes and was reportedly better read in the classics of Marxism than most Communist theoreticians and, though a leftist, he expressed enough fondness for the U.S. He was a rare bird in other ways as well. That Oppenheimer (1904–67) was a rare genius is beyond doubt his colleagues at CalTech, Göttingen and Los Alamos were impressed to the point of being cowed by his intellect, and “Oppie” was far ahead of even his professors in the new world of quantum theory. ![]() The second greatest scientific mind of the atomic era gets respectful but revealing treatment by political journalist Bird ( The Color of Truth, 1998) and literary scholar Sherwin ( A World Destroyed, 1975). ![]()
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