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It's true that Oppenheimer was a great administrator and communicator as well as a physicist, but that's not really what I'm talking about. Even in your comment, it seems you're laboring under some of the exact same assumptions Kaiser's work (the historian I rely on) dispels.
Kaiser really is a wonderful scholar of the history of science. He's both a physicist and historian, and he's also an incredible writer, because sometimes god just picks favorites. I really, really, really recommend checking him out if you like this stuff. I'm sure I didn't do his point justice. I was lucky enough to have him as a professor when I was an undergraduate, and I remember his lectures to this day, almost 15 years later.
Hm... maybe I was mistaken. What assumptions are you saying I'm laboring under? And yes, I read Kaiser's writing because of your comment and found it illuminating; I didn't know a lot of these things.