J. Robert Oppenheimer
1904-1967
American Physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer led the team that developed the first atomic bomb. Between 1943 and 1945, he directed the laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico,...
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert
J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) was born in New York City on April 22 of a privileged, assimilated German-Jewish family. Known widely as the "father of the...
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The American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) made fundamental contributions to theoretical physics and was director of the atomic energy research project at Los Alamos, N.Mex.On April 22, ...
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Theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was a pioneer in the field of quantum mechanics , the study of the energy of atomic particles. His research on protons and their relation to electrons led d...
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Oppenheimer was born into a wealthy family in New York City on April 22, 1904. He attended Harvard, Cambridge, and Göttingen universities. He worked under Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge and recei...
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