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We are on the cusp of a revolution, but we need theoretical sociologists to birth it

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At an early point in Oppenheimer the title character is shown struggling in a Cambridge University physics lab. One of his professors urged the young man to leave the lab and do theoretical work elsewhere, which he did in Germany.

At a later point it was mentioned, I believe by Oppenheimer himself, that he was bad at math. Of course, bad here must be pu…

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