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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 23:46:00 UTC Robert McNees

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   Oppenheimer arrived in Berkeley in 1929 to take a position as an assistant professor, in a special arrangement that also saw him teaching at Caltech. His first doctoral student at Berkeley was Melba Newell Phillips.

   Together they discovered the Oppenheimer-Phillips process, where a passing deuteron is polarized by the electrostatic field of a nucleus. The deuteron’s proton is repelled, allowing the nucleus to capture the neutron and form a heavier isotope.

   Ref: https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.48.500