It is incorrect to say, as David Jackson has, that Robert Serber left Berkeley because of the loyalty oath. Serber signed the oath. It was a complicated situation, but the deciding factor was the rift between Ernest Lawrence and J. Robert Oppenheimer, as Serber recounts in his memoir, Peace and War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science (Columbia University Press, 1998).
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