• physicists Herbert Anderson, Eugene Booth, G. N. Glasoe, John Dunning, Francis Slack and Enrico Fermi worked on splitting atoms in the basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University in 1939?
• Enrico Fermi was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1942?

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Arthur W. Ryder taught the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit to J. Robert Oppenheimer, who said it shaped his philosophy of life and famously quoted it at the Trinity nuclear test explosion?