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Haakon Maurice Chevalier (September 10, 1901 – July 4, 1985) was an American writer, translator, and professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley best known for his friendship with physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom he met at Berkeley, California in 1937.
Jul 21, 2023 · Haakon Chevalier was a professor of French literature and language at the University Of California, Berkeley and he and Oppenheimer met in 1937 and became...
Haakon Chevalier was a professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a close friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He was politically active at Berkeley, joining the Teachers’ Union and the ACLU. He was very left-wing and may have been a member of the Communist Party.
Haakon Chevalier was a French literature professor at Berkeley and close friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer. In this interview, Chevalier discusses aspects of Oppenheimer’s personal life, including his romantic relationships and family, hobbies including Sanskrit, and religious views.
Jul 18, 1985 · Haakon Chevalier, an American writer-translator who left the United States in 1950 after being accused of “anti-American activities,” died in Paris on July 4, his family said. He was 83.
Jul 21, 2023 · Many of J Robert Oppenheimer's relationships are also explored, and one that has particular significance is that with his friend Haakon Chevalier (played by House of the Dragon star...
Haakon Chevalier was a French literature professor, author, and close friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer beginning at Berkeley in 1937. In this interview, Chevalier discusses aspects of Oppenheimer’s personal life, including his romantic relationships, hobbies, and religious views.
(1901-1985) US author and translator from the French of many works; his career as a US university professor was destroyed by the House Unamerican Affairs Committee after 1950, and he emigrated to France where he worked as a translator.
Jul 11, 1985 · Haakon Chevalier, an author, translator and professor of French literature who left the United States in 1950 after being accused of ''anti-American activities,''...
Haakon Chevalier was a friend of Oppenheimer’s, whom he met in the late 1930s while both were on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. (Chevalier taught Romance languages, Oppenheimer taught physics.)
