Genetic Variation (Introduction)

by xeno6696 @, Sonoran Desert, Monday, September 27, 2010, 04:32 (5151 days ago) @ George Jelliss

xeno: Oppenheimer especially felt awful after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, enough that he eventually committed suicide. 
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> 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:
> -I probably got that somewhere deep in the 'net. I normally fact-check before I post; the result is looking like an ass. -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#Final_years
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> "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." 
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> His daughter committed suicide, perhaps that's where the confusion came from.-I could see that too. Either way I was wrong.

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