Berkeley loyalty oath tested politics, fear—not loyalty
JUN 01, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/1.4797150
It is incorrect to say, as David Jackson has, that Robert Serber left Berkeley because of the loyalty oath. Serber signed the oath. It was a complicated situation, but the deciding factor was the rift between Ernest Lawrence and J. Robert Oppenheimer, as Serber recounts in his memoir, Peace and War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science (Columbia University Press, 1998).
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Robert P. Crease, (rcrease@notes.cc.sunysb.edu, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, US .
© 2009 American Institute of Physics
