OPPENHEIMER, J ROBERT

Additional reading Michel Rouze, Oppenheimer (1962; Robert Oppenheimer: The Man and His Theories, 1965), is the only biography (to 1961). Oppenheimer's philosophical ideas are expressed in his two books, Science and the Common Understanding (1954) and The Open Mind (1955). Certain aspects of Oppenheimer's elusive personality are revealed in his letters published in Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections, ed. by Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner (1980). His scientific work is spread in many reports, published in particular in Physical Review, from 1928 to 1948. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Transcript of Hearings Before Personnel Security Board, Washington, D.C. April 12, 1954 Through May 6, 1954 (1954), is the fundamental document on Oppenheimer's trial by the Atomic Energy Commission. Among the numerous publications on this trial (all of them in favour of Oppenheimer), see Philip M. Stern, The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial (1969); and Peter Michelmore, The Swift Years: The Robert Oppenheimer Story (1969). Haakon Chevalier, the professor denounced by Oppenheimer, describes this issue in The Man Who Would Be God (1959) and Oppenheimer: The Story of a Friendship (1965).