His first doctoral student, Melba Phillips, was fired from Brooklyn College for refusing to testify infront of a Senate committee about internal security; with her, he names a type of strip reaction. Using pastresearch by Richard Tolman he and George Volkoff calculated the upper mass limit of a neutron star; withhis advisor Max Born he approximated the wave function of a molecule. He referenced the Bhagavad Gita'squote of "now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" after he oversaw the successful Trinity test.For 10 points, name this physicist, referred to as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his work in theMa
His first doctoral student, Melba Phillips, was fired from Brooklyn College for refusing to testify infront of a Senate committee about internal security; with her, he names a type of strip reaction. Using pastresearch by Richard Tolman he and George Volkoff calculated the upper mass limit of a neutron star; withhis advisor Max Born he approximated the wave function of a molecule. He referenced the Bhagavad Gita'squote of "now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" after he oversaw the successful Trinity test.For 10 points, name this physicist, referred to as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his work in theManhattan project.
His first doctoral student, Melba Phillips, was fired from Brooklyn College for refusing to testify infront of a Senate committee about internal security; with her, he names a type of strip reaction.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer