en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Oppenheimer
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Within two years, supported by endorsements from physicists Hans Bethe, George Gamow, and Victor Weisskopf, Oppenheimer was offered a position at the University of Colorado teaching physics.
Colorado and Caltech sources indicate Oppenheimer’s 1959 University of Colorado appointment was as a research associate; he did not return to university teaching/faculty status until 1961.
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This sentence compresses Oppenheimer’s return to academia in a misleading way.
The University of Colorado’s own history says that in 1959 Oppenheimer “was offered a position as a research associate,” and that he became an associate professor in 1961. That means his initial University of Colorado appointment was not a teaching faculty position “teaching physics” as stated here.
A Caltech oral-history summary likewise says that “Not until 1961 did he return to university life at the University of Colorado.”
So the article’s phrasing is inaccurate: the 1959 offer was a research-associate appointment, while his return to university teaching/faculty rank came later, in 1961.
2 sources
- Frank Oppenheimer, Robert's brother, honed physics teaching at CU Boulder | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder
After returning to Pagosa Springs ... in 1959 he was offered a position as a research associate. ... Oppenheimer became an associate professor in 1961.
- FRANK OPPENHEIMER | Caltech Oral History Project
His research ended abruptly in 1949 ... Not until 1961 did he return to university life at the University of Colorado.