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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.
Casa Oppenheimer (English: Oppenheimer House) is a historic house in Ponce, Puerto Rico, designed in 1913 by famed Puerto Rican architect Alfredo B. Wiechers. The house is unique among other historic structures in historic Ponce for its skillful incorporation of front gardens in a very limited urban space. [ 2 ]
Santiago Oppenheimer Bettini. Informe al pueblo de Ponce y al Gobernador de Puerto Rico sobre las gestiones administrativas y el estado de la Hacienda municipal durante el año económico de 1905 a 1906 por el alcalde de la ciudad. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Tipografía de El Ideal Católico. 1906. (Archivo Histórico Municipal de Ponce) Fay Fowlie de ...
Oppenheimer Drive cuts through the heart of Los Alamos, Hoppenheimer IPA is on tap at a local brewery and the physicist is the focus of an exhibit at the science museum, where some of his ...
Even after Oppenheimer married Puening in 1940, he continued to see Tatlock until 1943 when Oppenheimer visited her in San Francisco. By this time, Tatlock was being treated for clinical depression.
[Before World War II] Oppenheimer’s reputation and influence were centered around the small and close circle of physicists. As the wartime director of Los Alamos Laboratory, he was bound to receive important public attention, but there were other directors of great laboratories, and other physicists, who shared equal esteem but did not become objects of such general interest.
Tatlock was born in 1914. Her father, John Tatlock, was an acclaimed professor of English medieval literature; her mother, Marjorie Feldman, had been one of his former students.
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.