How the movie Oppenheimer illustrates the need for theoretical…sociologists

At an early point in Oppenheimer, the title character was shown struggling in a Cambridge University physics lab. One of his professors urged the young man to leave the lab and do theoretical work elsewhere, which he did in Germany. At a later point it was mentioned, I believe by Oppenheimer himself, that he was bad at math. Of course, bad here must be put in the context of other world-class scientists. I don’t suspect he’d have any trouble acing the math portion of the SAT and teaching physics in any program in the country. In another scene, Oppenheimer, now teaching at UC Berkeley, is told by experimental physicist Ernest Lawrence “theory will take you only so far.” This was immediately after Lawrence and his team had split an atom that Oppenheimer had believed, in theory, couldn’t be done. <a href="https://roderickshawngraham.medium.com/how-the-movie-oppenheimer-illustrates-the-need-for-theoretical-sociologists-cea06a54e8c2">Read More</a>