J. Robert Oppenheimer forever changed the course of history. He may be the most important physicist to have ever lived. Part of this video is sponsored by Wren. Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: ?https://www.wren.co/start/veritasium1 For the first 100 people who sign up, I will personally pay for the first month of your subscription!
If you want to learn more about Oppeheimer, I strongly recommend the book 'American Prometheus' By Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin. It is a remarkable book, very much deserving of the Pulitzer prize it received.
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A huge thank you to Dr. Martin Rohde and Dr. Antonia Denkova from the TU Delft for proofreading the script and providing valuable feedback.
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References:
Bird, K., & Sherwin, M. J. (2021). American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Atlantic Books.
Smith, A. K., & Weiner, C. (1980). Robert Oppenheimer: letters and recollections. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 36(5), 19-27. - https://ve42.co/Smith1980
Combes, J. M., Duclos, P., & Seiler, R. (1981). The born-oppenheimer approximation. Rigorous atomic and molecular physics, 185-213. - https://ve42.co/Combes1981
Rhodes, R. (2012). The making of the atomic bomb. Simon and Schuster.
Oppenheimer, J. R., & Volkoff, G. M. (1939). On massive neutron cores. Physical Review, 55(4), 374. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1939b
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1927). Bemerkung zur Zerstreuung der ?-Teilchen. Zeitschrift für Physik, 43(5-6), 413-415. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1927
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1927). Zur quantenmechanik der richtungsentartung. Zeitschrift für Physik, 43(1-2), 27-46. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1927b
Born, M., & Oppenheimer, R. (1927). Zur Quantentheorie der Molekeln Annalen der Physik, v. 84. - https://ve42.co/Born1927
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1928). Three notes on the quantum theory of aperiodic effects. Physical review, 31(1), 66.
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1928). On the quantum theory of the capture of electrons. Physical review, 31(3), 349.
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1931). Note on light quanta and the electromagnetic field. Physical Review, 38(4), 725.
Furry, W. H., & Oppenheimer, J. R. (1934). On the theory of the electron and positive. Physical Review, 45(4), 245. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1934
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1935). Note on charge and field fluctuations. Physical Review, 47(2), 144. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1935
Oppenheimer, J. R., & Snyder, H. (1939). On continued gravitational contraction. Physical Review, 56(5), 455. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1939
Oppenheimer, J. R., & Phillips, M. (1935). Note on the transmutation function for deuterons. Physical Review, 48(6), 500. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1935b
Malik, J. (1985). Yields of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear explosions (No. LA-8819). Los Alamos National Lab.(LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). - https://ve42.co/Malik1985
Ignition of the atmosphere with nuclear bombs -- https://ve42.co/Konopinski46
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Oppenheimer work killed a lot more than Fritz Harper.... yet the tone of this video is very less hostile than Fritz's ..... the hypocracy
@apollosample Says:
Okay but more importantly when they like take picture of like black and white with the cigarette they are like always taking pictures of crimes like no no I mean ha ha uh
@Conquerorbentonconquest Says:
The first pic you guys used for Pauli is actually Von Neumann
@chrisdenisewood3384 Says:
Climate change is nothing more than a money grab, complete BS. Actual climatologists, not climate activists, don’t see any proof of a problem at all. The west drive EVs as thousands of vehicles burn in wars, complete madness.
@AbhinanthnanAbhilashNair Says:
Right before he introduced Alvarez, the advertisement that said who is Alvarez started playing😊😊😊😊
@mike814031 Says:
28:40 wait just a minute, you can claim those wire taps were illegal on Oppenheimer but they surely were firmly legitimate to protect our national security so let's tell the whole truth. given his ties to communism and they were totally reasonable concerns our government had. So let's admit that part if we're going to tell the full story here. and it was all thanks to Oppenheimer that the soviets learned all about our secret and heavily guarded operation to build that bomb to protect us. Oppenheimer has absolutely no ethical or legal business leaking that to Russia, because they knew exactly what we were doing all along. Like when the three nations met during WW2 and the Russian leader was told we were developing that bomb, he sat there completely unsurprised because he already had that information, thanks to Oppenheimer's wife being a communist and sucking him into it. so don't sit here and tell everyone those wire taps were unlawful or illegitimate, especially given the information he illegally leaked to Russia.
@cejaymoonton8010 Says:
I wish they make a strong nuke that could wipeout all humans cos living today seems cringe and awful etc etc.
@chrisdenisewood3384 Says:
Those two bombs we’re dropping on a all but defeated Japan. Their navy was defeated, their airforce was defeated.even the bulk of their army was defeated mostly by their invasion of China in 1936. Yes Japan was fighting on two fronts and then America dropped these two bombs of civilian cities…demonic, absolute evil. Atomic bombs combined with AI will be man’s undoing.
@UnKnown-rd8gq Says:
This entire thing is a lie, hilarous, perfect evidence tobe arrested for classfied intell. Not that you got anything correct, just is...
@kjur0 Says:
5:10 Angry Polish mob it is time!!! SHE WAS POLISH, HER NAME IS MARIA SKŁODOWSKA!!!!!!!!
@fatikhataa Says:
Did the title just changed? i sweared this is not the title last time i watched it
@Selebo_5310 Says:
I just watched the movie..this is video is a much more interesting product
@E.O.man. Says:
Private equity???
@morilea Says:
rather asking if could they, they forgot to ask themselves is if should they
@Bjscribben Says:
You must pay youtube a ton to get recommended so much to me at night while im doing other stuff
@Ken_Brz Says:
Pure and simple, he was an “American” scientist. Embodied the American spirit. He had vision, charisma, leadership, and led the more intelligent/smarter scientist in their field. He had enough knowledge to bridge the gap and understand what was going on. He didn’t need to go into depth if he didn’t have to.
@АлексейФурман-г1ъ Says:
There was a lot men who gave us someting. That you can't imagine what.
@CharlesIsabirye Says:
Agent Scully Mulder... here is another case of the x-Files
@hmpvix Says:
0:42 wait what ?
@timbrunner2540 Says:
Hilarious now that the UN is backing off the global warming hoax
@twbcjhfstwbcjhfs Says:
You can't name a Jewish scientific accomplishment that wasn't made possible by white Christians: white Christian discoveries and school.
@FfoundersFiles Says:
Oppenheimer didn’t just build a weapon — he opened a door humanity can never close. The scariest part isn’t that scientists made the bomb… it’s that they understood what it meant and still had to live with it.
@joshinator3937 Says:
Well, until then, God bless! Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. Make the Lord the center of your life and live holy! Pray in Jesus' name, Amen! He is the way, the truth, and the life. No one gets to the Father but through Him. God loves us, and I love us. Good night! 🙏❤️
@chrismac2234 Says:
Cockroft and Walton. They split the atom and made it all possible. I can guess why they never get mentioned......
@AlternateHistoriesZ Says:
Top‑notch video, wow! hyped for the next video 🎉.
@SuperQueenChillBeats-e2e Says:
Awesome video!!! keep the great work coming 👍.
@instrument263 Says:
Its only a spectacular mind if the product of genius is of more benefit than loss. Im a physicists myself, i have been pondering on how to reward and renown these so called great minds, when i see that they were so precise and irreverent in their sophisticated ideas and in the process failed to do the simplest of evaluations "what maybe the end of this?", i just count them worse than those called ignorant and uncivilised. To do all that amount of work and fail to see the ends of their works is not only barbaric, but nonsense.
@TJJ234 Says:
the end of humanity will be by humanity....
@chrisgali2243 Says:
One of the best documentaries on this topic - and I have seen many in the last 40 years that I have been interested in this!
@RyanZoerner-yj8uc Says:
What's kidneys, to "you can have anything you want, but you'd better not take it from [the guy talking on the screen]?"
You shall wear out his promises: he shall exalt you to inherit the land?: "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
J. Robert Oppenheimer: "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." [subtitles]
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@clerancedesaa4682 Says:
Son of devil
Worked for devil
@AstorJohnson-Perry Says:
Is not a hydrogen bomb four bombs? I would consider the urchin a bomb
@ucfj Says:
Oppenheimer was too conceited. Nukes can't wipe everyone out. Only viruses can
@AntiCringe-q9x Says:
and that was the biggening of the end of humanity.
@msresu Says:
Hiroshima...we called war crime
@AmaanGhaffar Says:
Bro literally risked fusion instead of studying more lol
@sanadaltarawneh3550 Says:
The US then dares to speak about human rights.
@ninjamasterpops5332 Says:
50 seconds into the video, "This video is about how to build an atomic bomb."
@HighIQ.DailyFacts Says:
I feel like it should be much harder to access this information
@antonioamaral7471 Says:
O Albert sempre longe da realidade, como até hoje seus seguidores idólatras.
@antonioamaral7471 Says:
Ele como a maioria dos humanos se sentem deuses. Não foi ele, mas a sabedoria de Deus que é dada a todo ser criado.
@sanjuvali-yh9re Says:
Perhaps more terrifying than the idea of bomb not working was that it would work too well
@derekwarren1548 Says:
A shaman with an addictive plant was more dangerous.
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@gavindunagan2930 Says:
So we’ve been using whale oil to devastate large populations of people since the beginning of bombs?
@dennismaguli7765 Says:
He played his part to humanity and passed on his invention without forcing its use,,,the user will always be to blame because the choice not to use it will forever remain 😂😂
@hakuhayashi8188 Says:
Humans are very creative in killing their own species. Human creatures are evil.
@Paul-s3i2g Says:
heaviest Karma. oouuf. wouldn't wish anyone to have to bear it.
Om Mani Padme Hung
@MoonManAstro Says:
Nothing beats a clown trying to cash in during Covid
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