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Ernest Oppenheimer was born in Friedberg, German Empire, to a German-Jewish family. [4] He was the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant, and his wife, Nanette (née Hirschhorn) Oppenheimer. [5]: 13 He began his working life at 17, when he entered Dunkelsbuhler & Company, a diamond brokerage in London.
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.
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 ]
Katherine "Toni" Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer's second child, was born in 1944 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, while her father and other scientists worked on developing the atomic bomb.
Eduard Oppenheim (1831–1909), Protestant since 1859, partner of the bank 1880–1904, ⚭ Amalie Heuser (1835–1903) Ada von Oppenheim (1862–1944), ⚭ Graf Gisbert von Bredow (1859–1924) Wolf Ferdinand Alfred Georg von Bredow (1934–1952) Wolf Graf von Bredow
The man behind "Iron Man" is Lewis Strauss, former chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The conflict between Strauss and Oppenheimer vacillated between personal and professional issues.
She died in 1978 at the age of 62. J. Robert Oppenheimer died in 1967 in Princeton, at age 62, after battling throat cancer. His wife spread his ashes at their home at St. John in the Virgin ...
Otto Oppenheimer (1882–1948) was a British diamond dealer, who ran the London end of the De Beers company for his brother Sir Ernest Oppenheimer. [1]He was the son of Eduard Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant, and his wife Nanette "Nanny" Hirschhorn.