Richard C. Tolman
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Richard Chace Tolman was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who made many contributions to statistical mechanics and theoretical cosmology. He was a professor at the California In
Richard C. Tolman in 1945
Richard C. Tolman and Albert Einstein at Caltech, Pasadena, 1932
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology (1934)
Table of contents to Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology (1934)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomi
Richard C. Tolman
…1930s, Tolman obtained solutions to the Einstein field equations describing the static spherically symmetric perfect fluid. It was Tolman who spurred J. Robert Oppenheimer's interest in relativistic astrophysics by introducing to astronomers working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. Oppenheimer…
Oppenheimer in 1944
Oppenheimer in the Harvard University yearbook, 1926
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Laboratory in Leiden, Netherlands, July 1927. Oppenheimer is in the middle row, second from the left.
University of California Radiation Laboratory staff, including Robert R. Wilson and Nobel prize winners Ernest Lawrence, Edwin McMillan, and Luis Walter Alvarez, on the magnet yoke for the 60-inch (152 cm) cyclotron, 1938. Oppenheimer is the tall figure holding a pipe in the top row, just right of center.