Interview with Frank Oppenheimer - Caltech Oral Histories

Oppenheimer–32GOODSTEIN: What did your wife do there? Did she work at all?OPPENHEIMER: No, she went to the junior college in Pasadena and took chemistry. And then sheand Willy worked together in the sense that she looked at the pair—formation pictures and thenWilly helped her and put her name on a paper that they wrote about pair formation.Goodstein; Do you need special training to be a scanner?OPPENHEIMER: She didn’t have any previous training.GOODSTEIN: So Willy instructed her in what to look for.OPPENHEIMER: Yes.GOODSTEIN: How many hours a day can you do that?OPPENHEIMER: Quite a lot. I don’t remember how many hours a day she worked. Then sheworked also at the radical newspaper, The People’s World, in Los Angeles, for a year or so.GOODSTEIN: How long did she work for Willy as a scanner?OPPENHEIMER: I don’t know how long that took—six months maybe.Begin Tape 1, Side 2GOODSTEIN: The story is that if you came to campus any season, there would always be workhere at Kellogg.OPPENHEIMER: Yes. And that’s why I say, it was very strange for me to go away in thesummertime.http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_Oppenheimer_F