A conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer [motion picture] / CBS ; edited and produced by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly ; 1954 Dec 16.

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A conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer [motion picture] / CBS ; edited and produced by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly ; 1954 Dec 16.

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An extended version of the original interview with Oppenheimer conducted by Edward R. Murrow on December 16, 1954 at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University and broadcast on the CBS series 'See It Now,' on January 4, 1955. Oppenheimer discusses his accomplishments; the people, work and purpose of the Institute for Advanced Studies; the effects of McCarthyism and government secrecy on science and creativity; and his current work in particle physics.

1 film reel (45 min.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

Friendly, Fred W.

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Institute for advanced study Princeton, N.J.

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Murrow, Edward R. (Edward Roscoe), 1908-1965

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Edward Roscoe Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965), born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. After the war, in December 1945 Murrow an offer to become a vice president of the CBS network and head o...