Ahakoa i whakahaua e ia ki te mahi i te Whare Wananga o Cavendish, he maha nga pukapuka i tuhia e ia ki a Ernest Rutherford. I tukuna e Bridgman ki a Oppenheimer he taunakitanga, i whakaae ko te koretake o Oppenheimer i roto i te taiwhanga i tino kitea ai ko tana kaha ehara i te whakamatautau engari ko te ahupūngao ariā. Kaore a Rutherford i miharo, engari i haere a Oppenheimer ki Cambridge me te tumanako ki te tuku atu i tetahi atu tono. I whakaaetia ia e J. J. Thomson i te mutunga. I whakawhanakehia e ia he whanaungatanga kino ki tana kaiwhakaako, a Patrick Blackett, he tau torutoru noa iho tana pakeke. I te hararei, i te mea i whakamaharatia e tana hoa a Fergus Ferguson, i tuhituhi ia ki a Ernest Rutherford e tono ana kia whakaaetia ia ki te mahi i te Whare Wananga o Cavendish. I te wa i whanau a Fergusson ki te Whare Wananga o Parisi, i tukuna e Bridgman ki a Oppenheimer i te mea i kore ia e hiahia ki te mahi i tetahi mea
Ko te koretake o Oppenheimer