Great moments in Congressional testimony, 1949 edition. (Executive Session, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 23 August 1949.)pic.twitter.com/D74NBFGnfN
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(Serber was a friend and colleague of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and worked at Los Alamos during the war. A misguided comment by Oppenheimer to Manhattan Project security forces led to Serber being investigated for over a decade because his wife's parents were allegedly Communists.)
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I love Charlotte Serber's response when she was propositioned by a physicist in the garden after the war: "Poison ivy", she said, pointing to the ground.
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Charlotte Serber?? What? Are you sure she didn't confuse his query for an after hours book deposit? After all, she was Los Alamos lead librarian during the war.pic.twitter.com/ONdTuQGqYp
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It's in Serber's memoirs.
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Yes, but it would require some serious stones to mess with another man's wife in a high security military site. Info must travel like typhus in such communities, especially when she was so well known at Los Alamos.
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This was after the war (Berkeley or New York), sometime in the 50s.
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Some of Serber's weirdest stories were about his assigned mission by military security, to spread false rumors in bars around Los Alamos, on the purpose of the lab. He was an awful liar, and people didn't believe him. He even grabbed a guy by his shirt to try to make him listen.
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