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{{cquote|Oppenheimer's feeling toward Blackett was one of intense admiration, combined perhaps with an intense jealousy—jealousy because of his feeling that Blackett was brilliant and handsome and a man of great social charm, and combining all this with great brilliance as a scientist—and I think he had a sense of his own comparative awkwardness and perhaps a sense of being physically unattractive compared to Blackett and so on.<ref>Charles Thorpe, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=BWek8zJ-U7IC Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect]'' (University of Chicago Press, 2006) ISBN 0226798453, p. 39</ref>}}
{{cquote|Oppenheimer's feeling toward Blackett was one of intense admiration, combined perhaps with an intense jealousy—jealousy because of his feeling that Blackett was brilliant and handsome and a man of great social charm, and combining all this with great brilliance as a scientist—and I think he had a sense of his own comparative awkwardness and perhaps a sense of being physically unattractive compared to Blackett and so on.<ref>Charles Thorpe, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=BWek8zJ-U7IC Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect]'' (University of Chicago Press, 2006) ISBN 0226798453, p. 39</ref>}}
In the fall of 1925, Oppenheimer left a "poisoned apple" laced with chemicals (possibly cyanide) from the laboratory on Blackett's desk.<ref>Silvan S. Schweber, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Mpgs6qqNERwC Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius]'' (Harvard University Press, 2008) ISBN 0674028287, p. 142</ref> University authorities immediately informed Oppenheimer's parents (who were visiting Cambridge at the time) what had happened. According to a Pulitzer Prize-winning<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2006-Biography-or-Autobiography The 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Biography or Autobiography]</ref> biography of Oppenheimer:
In the fall of 1925, Oppenheimer left a "poisoned apple" laced with chemicals (possibly cyanide) from the laboratory on Blackett's desk.<ref>Silvan S. Schweber, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Mpgs6qqNERwC Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius]'' (Harvard University Press, 2008) ISBN 0674028287, p. 142</ref> University authorities immediately informed Oppenheimer's parents (who were visiting Cambridge at the time) what had happened. According to a Pulitzer Prize-winning<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2006-Biography-or-Autobiography The 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Biography or Autobiography]</ref> biography of Oppenheimer:
{{cquote|His father frantically—and successfully—lobbied the university not to press criminal charges. After protracted negotiations, it was agreed that Robert would be put on probation and have regular sessions with a prominent Harley Street psychiatrist in London. This Freudian analyst diagnosed dementia praecox, a now archaic label for symptoms associated with schizophrenia. He concluded that Oppenheimer was a hopeless case and that "further analysis would do more harm than good".<ref>[[#refBird-Sherwin|Bird, Sherwin 2006]]: 46</ref>}}
{{cquote|His father frantically—and successfully—lobbied the university not to press criminal charges. After protracted negotiations, it was agreed that Robert would be put on probation and have regular sessions with a prominent Harley Street psychiatrist in London. This Freudian analyst diagnosed ''dementia praecox'', a now archaic label for symptoms associated with schizophrenia. He concluded that Oppenheimer was a hopeless case and that "further analysis would do more harm than good".<ref>[[#refBird-Sherwin|Bird, Sherwin 2006]]: 46</ref>}}
Oppenheimer went to Paris for a rest. His boyhood friend Francis Fergusson visited him there, and mentioned that he had become engaged. For the second time, Oppenheimer committed an apparent attempted murder:
Oppenheimer went to Paris for a rest. His boyhood friend Francis Fergusson visited him there, and mentioned that he had become engaged. For the second time, Oppenheimer committed an apparent attempted murder:
{{cquote|"I leaned over to pick up a book," Fergusson recalled, "and he jumped on me from behind with a trunk strap and wound it around my neck. I was quite scared for a little while. We must have made some noise. And then I managed to pull aside and he fell on the ground weeping."<ref>[[#refBird-Sherwin|Bird, Sherwin 2006]]: 47</ref>}}
{{cquote|"I leaned over to pick up a book," Fergusson recalled, "and he jumped on me from behind with a trunk strap and wound it around my neck. I was quite scared for a little while. We must have made some noise. And then I managed to pull aside and he fell on the ground weeping."<ref>[[#refBird-Sherwin|Bird, Sherwin 2006]]: 47</ref>}}