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Katherine “Toni” Oppenheimer (1944-1977) was an American translator, and the daughter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Early Life. Toni Oppenheimer was one of the many children born at Los Alamos. When J. Robert Oppenheimer became the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Oppenheimer family moved with him to New Jersey ...
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.
Toni Oppenheimer. Credit: Atomic Heritage Foundation. Little is known by the general public or even somewhat knowledgeable crowd about the ancestral legacy left behind by J. Robert Oppenheimer,...
Unlike her brother, Peter, Robert Oppenheimer's daughter, Toni, was a good student. In 1966, she graduated with a B.A. from Oberlin College. Born at Los Alamos, Toni had polio while young and struggled to cope with her mother Kitty's worsening alcoholism, as well as her father's aloof personality.
Toni Oppenheimer tried to become a United Nations translator but was denied a security clearance because her father had been investigated for his alleged ties to communists.
They remained married until Oppenheimer's death from throat cancer in 1967, and Kitty scattered his ashes into the water by the island of St. John in the Virgin Islands, where they had spent...
Christopher Nolan's biopic "Oppenheimer" renewed interest in J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist credited with designing the first atomic bomb.