Genetic Variation (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Sunday, September 26, 2010, 20:21 (5171 days ago) @ xeno6696

xeno: Oppenheimer especially felt awful after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, enough that he eventually committed suicide. -I don't know where you got this from. As a matter of correcting the record, he died from throat cancer 22 years after the end of the war:-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#Final_years-"A chain smoker since early adulthood, Robert Oppenheimer was diagnosed with throat cancer in late 1965, and after inconclusive surgery, underwent radiation treatment by cobalt gamma rays and high energy electrons, then finally chemotherapy late in 1966. These were not curative, and the tumor spread to his palate, affecting his swallowing, hearing, and breathing.[24] He died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, USA in February 1967, at age 62." -His daughter committed suicide, perhaps that's where the confusion came from.

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GPJ