| Oppenheimer as Scientific Intellectual A Centennial Conference Final Program |
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| All sessions are held in the Faculty Club and open to the public |
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| FRIDAY, APRIL 23 |
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| Opening Remarks (8:45) |
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| Session I: Oppenheimer in Public (9:00-10:30) |
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| Jon Else and Peter Galison |
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| Moderator: John L. Heilbron |
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| Coffee break (10:30-11:00) |
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| Session II: Oppenheimer as Physicist (11:00-1:00) |
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| David C. Cassidy, "From Theoretical Physics to the Bomb: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American School of Theoretical Physics" |
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| Karl Hufbauer, "J. Robert Oppenheimer's Path to Black Holes" |
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| Commentator: Cathryn Carson |
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| Lunch break (1:00-2:15) |
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| Gregg Herken, Slide Show on Oppenheimer in Berkeley |
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| Session III: Politics: Answered and Unanswered Questions (Roundtable) (2:15-4:00) |
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| Barton Bernstein, Kai Bird, Gregg Herken, and Martin Sherwin |
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| Moderator: Charles Weiner |
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| SATURDAY, APRIL 24 |
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| Session IV: Postwar Politics: The Oppenheimer Case in Context (8:30-11:30) |
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| Stephanie Young, "The Lawrence-Neylan Axis: The AEC Personnel Security Hearings in Berkeley, 1948-49" |
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| David Kaiser, "The Atomic Secret in Red Hands? Cold War Suspicions of Theoretical Physicists" |
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| Jim Hershberg, "'The Jig Was Up': J. Robert Oppenheimer and the International Control of Atomic Energy, 1947-49" |
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| W. Patrick McCray, "Killing the Messenger: Oppenheimer and Caltech's Project Vista" |
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| Commentator: Jessica Wang |
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| Coffee break (11:30-11:45) |
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| Session V: The Soviet Comparison (11:45-1:15) |
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| Alexei Kojevnikov,"'To Catch Up and To Surpass': New Revelations and Lingering Questions" |
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| David Holloway, "Parallel Lives? Oppenheimer and Khariton" |
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| Commentator: Martin Sherwin |
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| Lunch break (1:15-2:30) |
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| Option: Bancroft Exhibit Tour by David Farrell (1:45-2:30) |
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| Session VI: Cultural Ambitions, Cultural Context (2:30-5:00) |
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| Robert P. Crease, "Oppenheimer's Career and the Sense of the Tragic" |
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| S. S. Schweber, "Oppenheimer and the 'Two Cultures'" |
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| Charles Thorpe, "The Scientist in Mass Society: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Post-War Liberal Imagination" |
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| Commentator: David Hollinger |
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| Coffee (5:00-5:15) |
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| Concluding Panel (5:15-6:30) |
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| Daniel J. Kevles, Richard Polenberg, and the audience |
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