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.
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