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J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈ ɒ p ən h aɪ m ər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
This caused a media sensation—that J. Robert Oppenheimer's brother was a former member of the Communist Party—and led to Oppenheimer resigning his post at the University of Minnesota. [ 15 ] After being branded a Communist, Oppenheimer could no longer find work in physics in the United States, and he was also denied a passport, preventing ...
In July, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” premiered in theaters, and viewers got an intimate look at J. Robert Oppenheimer’s journey to developing the atomic bomb. But the film also ...
Born on August 12, 1912 in New York City, Frank Oppenheimer was eight years younger than his soon-to-be renowned brother J. Robert Oppenheimer, according to his bio on the Exploratorium, the ...
The Oppenheimer family is an Anglo–South African family best known for its longtime control of Anglo American and De Beers. [1] Ernest Oppenheimer , a German immigrant to Britain and later to South Africa, founded the Anglo American Corporation in 1917 to mine the Witwatersrand for gold. [ 2 ]
The highly anticipated movie “Oppenheimer” finally lands in theaters Friday. But who was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist widely considered the father of the atomic bomb?
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.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer? Oppenheimer was born Julius Robert Oppenheimer on April 4, 1904 in New York City, according to the Atomic Archive. He studied at Harvard University and University of ...