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They found John Lansdale Jr. particularly persuasive; he had interrogated Oppenheimer over the Chevalier incident in 1943, and strongly supported him. [25] On August 11, 1947, the AEC unanimously voted to grant Oppenheimer a Q clearance. [26] At the first meeting of the GAC on January 3, 1947, Oppenheimer was unanimously elected its chairman. [27]
Haakon Maurice Chevalier (September 10, 1901 – July 4, 1985) was an American writer, translator, and professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley best known for his friendship with physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom he met at Berkeley, California in 1937.
[1] [2] He was a Fellow of the Physical Society. [3] He and his wife were suspected of being agents of the USSR looking for US atom bomb secrets. He was named by Robert Oppenheimer when interviewed by the Atomic Energy Commission [4] which resulted in Oppenheimer being stripped of his security clearance, in the so-called Chevalier Incident.
Ray Monk’s biography of Oppenheimer, A Life Inside the Center, also includes a description of the alleged attempted poisoning.“In what looks like an attempt to murder his tutor, or at the very ...
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The scene where Oppenheimer poisons his tutor's apple at university is based on accounts that Oppenheimer gave of the incident, but it is unclear whether it occurred in real life. [271] Oppenheimer is depicted as putting potassium cyanide in the apple before having a change of heart the next day and narrowly preventing it from being eaten.
Scene 4: Kitty seduces Oppenheimer . Oppenheimer’s other principal love affair is with Kitty (Emily Blunt), who becomes his wife. (He was her third husband.) Their passion is cemented during a ...