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...building stones of the universe, far more fundamental than big, clumsy atoms or even protons or electrons. Out of their discovery grew Einstein's relativity, including his historic proof, not then considered fraught with danger to civilization, that matter is equivalent to energy. Out of it grew Niels Bohr's description of the atom as a sort of sun surrounded by electron planets which jump from orbit to orbit emitting quanta of light. Out of it developed the quantum theory, to laymen more arcane than the inner reaches of medieval theology; the quantum theory reduces solid matter...
...Niels Bohr, one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, whom Oppenheimer affectionately refers to as "my father," was interviewed in his native Denmark by TIME "stringer," Kai Schou. A Nobel prize winner and one of the leaders in the fellowship of physics whom Oppenheimer first met at Cambridge University, Bohr had escaped from Nazi-occupied Denmark to collaborate with Oppenheimer and the other scientists in the research and development of the atomic bomb...
...theory: "Quantum mechanics had just begun to come into existence. It was a very exciting time in physics. Anyone could just get in there and have fun." At Cambridge, Oppenheimer met some of the leaders in the fellowship of physics-such men as Max Born, Paul Dirac, and Niels Bohr ("It would be hard to exaggerate how much I venerate Bohr...
...head the new Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. It was probably the best decision that Groves ever made. Oppie, who had never even been chairman of a physics faculty, became top executive of a $60 million company with 4,500 workers, including such eminent physicists as Enrico Fermi and Niels Bohr...
...refresh themselves before continuing on their way. He wanted an international clientele at his Grand Hotel. Expatriate and exiled scholars have always been welcome at the Institute, but Oppenheimer had something different in mind: a continuous world traffic in ideas. For such foreign scholars as Denmark's Bohr and Britain's Dirac and Toynbee, Oppenheimer hoped to work out periodic repeat performances, so that they would never wholly lose touch either with the U.S. or with home base. Said Oppenheimer: "The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person...