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00:10Welcome to my channel shadows of history max born was a brilliant
00:15theoretical physicist, but he often got lost in his long calculations and made small
00:20mistakes he often asked one of his students to check them once in 1920
00:25born who was overly self-critical asked Robert Oppenheimer who was then a
00:30graduate student to look at the complicated calculations in his paper on the quantum mechanics
00:35of collision processes fearing that he had made some stupid mistakes after a few days
00:40Oppenheimer returned and said looking a little surprised I couldn't find a
00:45single mistake did you really do it all by yourself all of
00:50born students knew about his propensity for making calculation errors but as born later
00:55wrote in his autobiography Oppenheimer was the only one frank and brusque enough to say it without
01:00joking I wasn't offended in fact it increased my respect for his
01:05remarkable personality born was 43 at the time Oppenheimer
01:1022 during born seminars on quantum mechanics Oppenheimer would regularly in
01:1520 years later
01:16interrupt whoever was speaking including born himself walk up to the blackboard take the chalk
01:20from the hand of whoever was there and declare in his American accent a German no that's wrong
01:25that's not the way to do it or it could be done better in the following way
01:30these interruptions impressed his fellow students one of whom later observed
01:35he looked to me like an olympian who had come to amuse himself among humans and
01:40who was doing his best to appear human but they also annoyed them some of them
01:45and he complained to born demanding that he do something but one day
01:50born arrived at his seminar to find on his desk a sheet of paper disguised as medieval parchment on which
01:55had been written in decorative archaic cursive a threat by the students to boycott the next
02:00lectures unless an end was put to Oppenheimer's annoying interventions the main impetus for this
02:05threat came from Maria Gaye Pertmeyer a future Nobel laureate then a precocious
02:1020 year old physics student born understood that the possible boycott had to be taken seriously
02:15the child prodigy had to be reined in and yet still fearful of confronting Oppenheimer
02:20and he was able to do it directly he devised an elaborate plan to make him realize that he was
02:23causing trouble the next
02:25next time Oppenheimer visited his house born left the parchment on the desk and then left the room
02:30to answer a phone call he had arranged with his wife Heidi the plan worked born
02:35later wrote when I returned to the study I found him rather pale and less talkative than
02:40usual interruptions during the seminar session ceased completely
02:45later this he was just passing from now being woman was mooing andbled away from her
02:49because heskate drastically and unsettling the stains on the stack on.
02:51So we can't forget all that I'm going down on this.
02:54Right?
02:55Yes, we're sure to find out that he now has an opportunity, as our to represent list and
03:00they should be moved to listings and make him aряд ofهم what staff are pregunting
03:10about the lack of bias and that he was experiencing in a long distance of his life,
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