Oppenheimer on Einstein

The famous physicist Robert Oppenheimer speaks on Albert Einstein— the greatest physicist of the last century.His lecture on the works and life of Einstein can be found in The New York Review of Books.

Oppenheimer himself was also a colorful personality.He was a prodigy scientist as well as a great admirer of poetry.He was the first to explain the formation of space-time singularity in terms of General Relativity.He was instrumental in the development of A-Bomb—in fact he led the Manhattan Project at a mere 34 years of age.In his later life he was accused of conspiracy and confined in his house.