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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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer is the man at the center of one of the summer's most anticipated films — Christopher Nolan's newest release, "Oppenheimer." The film centers around Oppenheimer's life as a ...
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 ...
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?
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a 2005 biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project which produced the first nuclear weapons, written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin over a period of 25 years.
I still am, in a way, forced to believe it, but really, logically, I am sure that I can't be because of my un-masculinity." [16] She began seeing Robert Oppenheimer in 1936, when she was a graduate student and Oppenheimer was a professor of physics at Berkeley. [17]
Robert had a greenhouse built for Kitty, where she raised orchids; for her birthdays Oppenheimer had rare species flown in from Hawaii. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] Olden Manor was sometimes known as "Bourbon Manor"; [ 47 ] Kitty and Robert liked to keep the liquor cabinet well stocked, and like many of their generation, liked to celebrate cocktail hour with ...
A biographer of Robert Oppenheimer explains how he uncovered the likely truth about his membership in a secret communist unit.