[Colorized] J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein, 1947 [678x750]

Is it just me or does the place where Einstein's forehead and hair meet looks weird.

Making a shopping list for Einstein’s infamous atomic brownies.

Can't wait for the Nolan directed Oppenheimer movie!

"Oppie, now we're all sons of bitches"

Link to the original B&W : https://learninglab.si.edu/resources/view/2188#more-info More of my work : https://yigitcanyontem.wordpress.com/ Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph brings together two generations of world-renowned physicists at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where J. Robert Oppenheimer accepted the position of director in 1947. Under Oppenheimer's leadership, the institute became a leading center for theoretical physics. Albert Einstein had been a scholar-in-residence at the institute since 1933, after fleeing Nazi Germany and renouncing his German citizenship. Einstein transformed the world of physics with his theory of relativity and work in quantum mechanics. On the basis of Einstein's recommendation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened a board to investigate the possibilities of using a nuclear chain reaction as an atom bomb. Oppenheimer directed the Manhattan Project, which developed and detonated the first atomic bomb in the desert outside of Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The average intelligence in that room must be high..

"And this is the last time I'm helping you with the math, Bob. Ask Eddie next time."

[https://imgur.com/a/ImFt4vK](https://imgur.com/a/ImFt4vK) Hairline fixed version

"You see Opie, you heat it just enough to vaporize it without using any fire. I call it a dab"

Both were 25 years old.

Currently reading American Prometheus, great book btw. I am guessing the picture was taken at IAS?

Noticed I got the same pullover

The intelligence in this photo is more than that found in entire photo albums.

Now that I think of it I don't think there are that many publicly common photos of Oppenheimer. You see various pictures of Einstein all over the place but not of Oppenheimer, this is the first I've seen this angle of him. I assume he wasn't a very public figure.

Two Smart Asses.

Shout out to The Making if the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhoades, a fantastic book about the mathematics, physics, politics and ethics of creating and deploying nuclear weapons. Dives pretty deep into the physics dating back to the discovery of the nucleus by Ernst Rutherford and ends with horrifying firsthand accounts of atomic destruction from Japanese citizens who lived through Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is chilling. The book is great. My favorite part is about Leo Szilard, a Hungarian born Jewish physicist who lobbied for the creation of an atomic weapon because he feared the Nazis would get there first. After the weapon was assured he urged the US government to tell the world to prevent a secretive arms race. And he was absolutely correct, the USSR and USA raced to build bigger and more destructive bombs which threatened to end humanity. Dude saw the importance of nuclear weapons before almost anyone else and he predicted the nuclear arms race.

Nerds

"See Robert, it's really not that hard...see...we carry the 2...there it is, we just moved it over here in this column."

The Atomic Duo

“if you start out with by putting the ‘O’ in this box you always win no matter where they put the ‘X’…….

*Albert Einstein and Cillian Murphy

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”…….. still one of the creepiest quotes I’ve ever heard.

This is awesome.

Did their fields of work have any significant overlap, other than their both being physicists?