“What more do you want, mermaids?”

—  Isidor Isaac Rabi

In defense of Robert Oppenheimer at McCarthy-era security hearings, after noting he had organized scientists to develop the atomic bomb for the US, as quoted in "Atomised" in The New Statesman' (10 January 2008) http://www.newstatesman.com/200801100042.

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American physicist 1898–1988

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