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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>}}

In 1926, Oppenheimer left Cambridge for the University of Göttingen in Germany. He developed a reputation for obnoxiousness, once chiding a graduate student couple for what he called their "peasant" ways in not being able to afford a baby-sitter.<ref>David Bodanis, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=MmjreCHCq_gC E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation]'' (Random House, Inc., 2001) ISBN 0385258917, p. 147</ref> He had a habit of interrupting others (including his professor) and commandeering the blackboard; the future [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1963/mayer.html Nobel Prize-winner] Maria Göppart once presented Oppenheimer's faculty adviser, Max Born, with a petition threatening a boycott of his seminar unless the "child prodigy" were reigned in.<ref>[[#refBird-Sherwin|Bird, Sherwin 2006]]: 60</ref> Oppenheimer obtained a Ph.D. in physics in 1927, then obtained a National Research Council fellowship funded by the [[Rockefeller Foundation]].<ref>[[#refBird-Sherwin|Bird, Sherwin 2006]]: 68</ref> He did post-doctoral work at Harvard, then the California Institute of Technology, finally taking a position as an associate professor of physics at the [[University of California at Berkeley]].

In 1926, Oppenheimer left Cambridge for the University of Göttingen in Germany. He developed a reputation for obnoxiousness, once chiding a graduate student couple for what he called their "peasant" ways in not being able to afford a baby-sitter.<ref>David Bodanis, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=MmjreCHCq_gC E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation]'' (Random House, Inc., 2001) ISBN 0385258917, p. 147</ref> He had a habit of interrupting others (including his professor) and commandeering the blackboard; the future [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1963/mayer.html Nobel Prize-winner] Maria Göppart once presented Oppenheimer's faculty adviser, [[Max Born]], with a petition threatening a boycott of his seminar unless the "child prodigy" were reigned in.<ref>[[#refBird-Sherwin|Bird, Sherwin 2006]]: 60</ref> Oppenheimer obtained a Ph.D. in physics in 1927, then obtained a National Research Council fellowship funded by the [[Rockefeller Foundation]].<ref>[[#refBird-Sherwin|Bird, Sherwin 2006]]: 68</ref> He did post-doctoral work at Harvard, then the California Institute of Technology, finally taking a position as an associate professor of physics at the [[University of California at Berkeley]].

== Scientific contributions ==

== Scientific contributions ==