J. Robert Oppenheimer
 J. Robert Oppenheimer    (scientist) | |
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| Born | 1904-04-22 |
| Died | 1967-02-18 (Age 62) Princeton, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, Christ's College, Cambridge, University of Göttingen |
| Religion | Jew |
| Spouse | Katherine "Kitty" Puening Harrison |
| Member of | Committee on the Present Danger/Members |
| Interests | Theoretical physics |
Developer of the US atomic bomb. | |
| Recollections of the first atomic explosion at Alamogordo, New Mexico on 16 July 1945 |
Julius Robert Oppenheimer (22 April 1904 – 18 February 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. As the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, Oppenheimer is among those who are called the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first atomic bomb was detonated on 16 July 1945, at the Trinity test site in New Mexico. Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - See video clip
Oppenheimer was a member of the first Committee on the Present Danger.
