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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 ]
Oppenheimer was born Julius Robert Oppenheimer [note 1] into a non-observant Jewish family in New York City on April 22, 1904, to Ella (née Friedman), a painter, and Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer, a successful textile importer. [5] [6] Robert had a younger brother, Frank, who also became a physicist. [7]
Nicky Oppenheimer and his son Jonathan Oppenheimer established the Brenthurst Foundation in 2005 as a way to contribute to the debate around strategies and policies for strengthening Africa's economic performance and enabling inclusive and sustainable development. The family has also long been involved in environmental and conservation issues. [12]
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.
Ernest Oppenheimer married Mary Lina Pollak in 1906 and had two sons. [5]: 13 She died in 1934. [5]: 13 In 1935, he married Caroline Magdalen Oppenheimer (née Harvey), widow of Sir Michael, 2nd Baronet Oppenheimer of Stoke Poges. He died in Johannesburg in 1957. Although he was born into a Jewish family, he converted to Anglicanism in adulthood.
While J. Robert Oppenheimer made a name for himself in the U.S. through groundbreaking research on theoretical physics, Frank Oppenheimer worked on various nuclear physics projects throughout the ...
In ‘Oppenheimer’, Christopher Nolan’s new film about the inventor of the atomic bomb, Florence Pugh is the messy mistress Jean Tatlock, Emily Blunt the alcoholic wife. Annabel Nugent talks ...
Oppenheimer was born in New York City to Peter Oppenheimer and Muriel Wolfson. [2] She has two older brothers. [3] Her brother David is also a lawyer. Oppenheimer is a granddaughter of businessman Harvey C. Oppenheimer and Amy Vorhaus. She is named after her grandmother, who had died shortly before her granddaughter was born.