"In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learn..." — J. Robert Oppenheimer

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

J. Robert Oppenheimer Physicist • American