'Baryon-Exchange Model in Isobar Production'
New York: American Physical Society, June 1964. 1st Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7. Very Good. Item #8307
Trade paperback. The June 8, 1964 of Physical Review Letters. RARE 1964 PHYSICS JOURNAL with an inside-page 1st Edition article by Frank OPPENHEIMER, brother of 'Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Oppenheimer and constructor of the TRINITY ATOMIC BOMB testing site for the Manhattan Project during WW II. The article is titled 'Baryon-Exchange Model in Isobar Production'Blue typographical wraps with mild wear, including an address label to rear wrap. Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (1912 – 1985) was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco.A younger brother of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Oppenheimer conducted research on aspects of nuclear physics during the time of the Manhattan Project, and made contributions to uranium enrichment. After the war, Oppenheimer's earlier involvement with the American Communist Party placed him under scrutiny, and he resigned from his physics position at the University of Minnesota. Oppenheimer was a target of McCarthyism and was blacklisted from finding any physics teaching position in the United States until 1957, when he was allowed to teach science at a high school in Colorado. This rehabilitation allowed him to gain a position at the University of Colorado teaching physics. In 1969, Oppenheimer founded the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and he served as its first director until his death in 1985.During World War II, Frank's older brother Robert became the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, part of the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to produce the first atomic weapons. From 1941 to 1945 Frank worked at the University of California Radiation Laboratory on the problem of uranium isotope separation under the direction of his brother's good friend, Ernest O. Lawrence. In 1945 he was sent to the enrichment facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee to help monitor the equipment. In late 1943 he arrived at the Los Alamos Laboratory. He worked directly under Kenneth T. Bainbridge. His responsibilities included the instrumentation for the Trinity test site, in New Mexico. Oppenheimer was involved in the founding of the Association of Los Alamos Scientists, on the 30th of August 1945. This organization promoted international peaceful control of nuclear power. He later also joined the Federation of American Scientists. He was also a member of the American Physical Society.After the war, Oppenheimer returned to Berkeley, working with Luis Alvarez and Wolfgang Panofsky to develop the proton linear accelerator. In 1947 he took a position as Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota, where he participated in the discovery of heavy cosmic ray nuclei.
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