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Commentary: The world must leave room for people such as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Alan Turing

US nuclear physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos atomic laboratory, testifying before the Special Senate Committee on Atomic Energy.

The movie “Oppenheimer” reminds us that a healthy society must leave room for people who face down power to pursue truth, who introduce new ways of thinking or who choose to follow alternative life paths.

A brilliant but eccentric scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer led the world into the Atomic Age only to run afoul of government investigators. He also calls to mind a similar

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