Interview with Frank Oppenheimer - Caltech Oral Histories

Oppenheimer–24OPPENHEIMER: Yes, but very vaguely. I remember a great sense of excitement, and thenwondering almost right away why it didn’t interact.GOODSTEIN: Do you remember any discussion with Fowler about the resonance work, because itwas the Kellogg group that discovered the resonance effect.OPPENHEIMER: I don’t remember any particular discussion of it.GOODSTEIN: Well, I think it’s one of those things that looms larger in hindsight than at the time.OPPENHEIMER: It seemed very familiar to me. It was part of my understanding of what washappening.GOODSTEIN: Did you do any teaching while you were there as a grad student?OPPENHEIMER: No.GOODSTEIN: Would you have liked to?OPPENHEIMER: Yes.GOODSTEIN: They didn’t take any volunteers?OPPENHEIMER: I don’t know what happened there.GOODSTEIN: So you really had no contact with the undergraduates.OPPENHEIMER: Not at all, which is strange, because then when I went to Stanford, I did. I hadtwo laboratory courses with undergraduates.GOODSTEIN: So, basically, you never really got any teaching until afterwards, after your Ph.D.http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_Oppenheimer_F