David Bohm was a brilliant physicist. In the latter part of World War II, when he was just a graduate student, his PhD supervisor, J. Robert Oppenheimer, hired him to help build America’s first atomic (nuclear) bomb. Bohm was so brilliant and his contributions to the bomb project so valuable that his work was immediately classified.
Bohm was prohibited from using his own insights to write his PhD dissertation. Oppenheimer was his Chair and was able to get Bohm his PhD by vouching for the caliber of Bohm’s work without a paper. One would think that Bohm, with this pedigree, would have some degree of what today is called “privilege” as opposed to what the law provides as “rights” protecting Bohm. No such luck.
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