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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.
[16] She began seeing Robert Oppenheimer in 1936, when she was a graduate student and Oppenheimer was a professor of physics at Berkeley. [17] They met through his landlady, Mary Ellen Washburn, who was a member of the Communist Party, when Washburn held a fundraiser for communist-backed Spanish Republicans. [18] [19]
Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the bombs. The Army program was designated the Manhattan District, as its first headquarters were in Manhattan; the name gradually superseded the official codename, Development of Substitute Materials, for the entire project.
Before September 1944 when Hanford’s now historic B Reactor was started up, controlled chain reactions had been much smaller. ... Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer, left, Olli Haaskivi is ...
Robert Oppenheimer named the test site “Trinity.” The name was inspired by a John Donne poem, which Oppenheimer once shared with his fiancée Jean Tatlock. ... A year later, on January 5, 1944 ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer is the man at the center of one of the summer's most anticipated ... worked at the lab for several years — even Oppenheimer's second child was born at Los Alamos in 1944.
Isidor Isaac Rabi, Dorothy McKibbin, Robert Oppenheimer and Victor Weisskopf at Oppenheimer's home in Los Alamos in 1944. Women at Los Alamos were encouraged to work, due to the shortage of labor and security concerns over bringing in local workers. About 60 wives of scientists were at work in Technical Area by September 1943.
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?