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The duty of genius ray monk5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Then Robert began to sob." His mother then knocked the door: "Let me in Inez? Why won't you let me in? I know Robert is in there." Shortly afterwards Inez left for Italy with Robert's parting gift – a copy of Dostoevsky's The Idiot. ![]() "There they lay, tremulous with cold, afraid to do anything," wrote Fergusson. ![]() Back in Cambridge, Robert did his best to court Inez, which led to them both sharing a bed. His parents had brought along an old classmate from New York, Inez Pollak, as a putative cure for his depression. At the time he was studying with the Nobel-winning physicist Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, but was horribly frustrated: the brilliant Harvard graduate was expected to attend undergraduate lectures and to learn basic lab skills instead of pursuing, as he ardently wanted, original research into the new physics captivating Europe's best minds. Oppenheimer was on his way to meet his parents, Julius and Ella, who had travelled from New York to meet their son because they were worried about his mental health. ![]()
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