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Meanwhile, Groves had met with J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, and discussed the creation of a laboratory where the bomb could be designed and tested. Groves was impressed with the breadth of Oppenheimer's knowledge.
Jul 18, 2023 · Groves’ death came three years after the death of his former Manhattan Project colleague, J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy in the Nolan movie). Oppenheimer died on February 18, 1967, at the age of 62. His death came on the heels of a battle with throat cancer.
Jun 5, 2014 · General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were a study in contrasts, yet both were indispensable to the success of the Manhattan Project. Both men were extremely ambitious and overcame personal differences to achieve their common purpose.
Jul 20, 2023 · No one person can be credited with producing the world's first atomic bomb but two men had outsize achievements in that effort: physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Army Lt. Gen. Leslie...
Jul 13, 2023 · General Leslie Groves, the military leader of the Manhattan Engineer District, was the person responsible for finding a scientific director for the bomb project. According to a 2002 biography...
Robert Norris is on the Board of Directors of the Atomic Heritage Foundation. He is the author of a biography about General Leslie Groves, Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project’s Indispensable Man, and co-author of Making the Russian Bomb: From Stalin to Yeltsin.
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In September 1945, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (left) and Groves (right) survey the twisted steel remnants at the site of the Trinity atomic bomb test detonation two months earlier. With assurance not based on much beyond a “must do” attitude, a second bomb design was initiated.
