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To mark the release of the Oppenheimer interviews in April 2026, AIP hosted a fireside chat with Kai Bird and Oppenheimer’s grandchildren, Dorothy Oppenheimer Vanderford and Charles Oppenheimer. MIT professor of science history and physics David Kaiser moderated.
“The Oppenheimer family is happy to work with the Niels Bohr Library & Archives to release its archival record of J. Robert Oppenheimer recordings and transcripts to the public for non-profit research and education. The Archive’s mission of increasing access to and promoting research of the history of science aligns with the family’s interest in making Oppenheimer’s historical role in science more broadly accessible by presenting Oppenheimer’s thoughts and recollections from his own perspective.”
— Statement from the Oppenheimer family
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I think that taken as a story of human achievement and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics, and they should be available in our tradition.
Robert Oppenheimer at the dedication of AIP’s Niels Bohr Library, 1962
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