Relics - History Podcast: Oppenheimer's Chair
Even the father of the atomic bomb had to sit down somewhere. It's hard to believe that our legendary first Lab director and brilliant physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer did something as ordinary as using a chair at work like the rest of us do.
However, aside from a recently gifted book, this chair from the 1940s is the only Oppenheimer possession that the Lab has. And Oppie fans love it. The chair is routinely loaned to museums nationwide for display.
As it turns out, though, the fascination may be more about the man who sat in the chair than the chair itself.
Listen to Alan Carr, the senior historian at the Lab’s National Security Research Center (NSRC), and Wendy Strohmeyer, the artifacts collection specialist for the Lab’s Bradbury Science Museum, in Episode 1 of the Relics podcast series.
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