Talk:Melba Phillips
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Her dismissal from two positions was because of McCarthyism its well documented, not POV--nixie 08:12, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Oppenheimer
Didn't she date Oppenheimer at some point while she was his student? And wasn't she his first graduate student? I seem to recall this. I'll look it up at some point... --Fastfission 00:53, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
- I didn't come across it in her obit, but a better source on Oppenheimer might have some more information.--nixie 00:58, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
- I think it is in Gregg Herken's Brotherhood of the Bomb, but I can check at some point. I believe it is searchable on Amazon you are interested. --Fastfission 01:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, I found the quote:
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- Almost all who knew Oppenheimer at Berkeley agreed that oen incident -- Oppie's date with Melba Phillips, his first graduate studnet -- wa emlematic of the riddle that was his personality. When Phillips had fallen asleep during a drive with Oppie up into the Berkeley hills, Oppenheimer had simply parked the car and left the girl stranded while he walked home. To Oppie's defenders, the episode was an example of their professor's endearing absent-mindedness. To his detractors, including many he had snubbed or humiliated on the Berkeley faculty, it was proof of his casual cruelty. (from Gregg Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller (Henry Holt, 2002), p. 15).
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- Hmm. The mentioning of her as the first graduate student seems rather casual, though the fact that they dated might be interesting. The footnote references an interview with another scientist who knew Oppenheimer. --Fastfission 01:11, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
- Seems like it might be worth working into the article.--nixie 01:21, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
- Hmm. The mentioning of her as the first graduate student seems rather casual, though the fact that they dated might be interesting. The footnote references an interview with another scientist who knew Oppenheimer. --Fastfission 01:11, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
