Word: berkeley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...frauds.* In time, Cal and CalTech realized that Oppenheimer (like Whitehead and Bridgman) was "a man to whom you could be an apprentice." By 1939, "Oppie" (as his apprentices called him) had 25 full-time graduate students working under him. In the spring, when he headed south from Berkeley for the CalTech term, many of his students went with him. Driving down to Pasadena, they stopped for "roadside seminars...
...night working on some involved problem ("How much sleep do I need? This is like what Mrs. Lenin said about the meat: 'When we are hungry, we cook it five minutes; when we are not hungry, two hours'"). Once, on a date with a coed in the Berkeley hills, he felt the urge to solve a problem in physics, got out of the car to pace up & down, wandered off into the night. On another occasion, emboldened by his own Martinis, Oppenheimer decided to telephone a girl he "knew," found that he could not remember her name...
...Serber, CalTech's Christy, Stanford's Schiff, Columbia's Lamb, Iowa State's Carlson, Illinois' Nordsieck, Washington's Uehling. (Brother Frank, the original Oppie apprentice, is now a physicist at the University of Minnesota.) Says Nobel Prizewinner Robert Millikan: "Oppenheimer developed at Berkeley an outstanding school of theoretical physics, and its products are leaders of modern physics today...
...Tragic Sense. At Berkeley, Oppenheimer also apprenticed himself to the late Professor Arthur Ryder, greatest Sanskrit student of his day. In the long winter evenings, he and a handful of other students visited Ryder's house to share his Sanskrit learning and his Stoic faith...
...founder Richard (who brought and held together for 21 years the explosively hostile Gilbert & Sullivan collaboration, and made them the biggest money-making team in theatrical history), Rupert inherited his father's flair for show business and real estate, held controlling interests in London's Savoy, Berkeley and Claridge's hotels, the Savoy Theater, Simpson's Restaurant...