He may be famous (or infamous) for the bomb now, but J. Robert Oppenheimer studied more than just war-ending explosives. In his early years, the man took interest in a variety of physics topics as well.
Oppenheimer Studied More Than Just the Bomb—Here’s the Rest of His Repertoire.
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