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J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈɒpənhaɪmər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist. He was director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II and is often called the "father of the atomic bomb ". Born in New York City, Oppenheimer ...
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Oppenheimer (film) Oppenheimer. (film) Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller drama film [a] written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan. [8] It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
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Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 22, 1904. He studied at Harvard University, Christ's College, Cambridge and at University of Göttingen. In 1940, he married Katherine Puening. They had two children.
He taught at the University of California, Berkeley where is works about theoretical physics became important for quantum mechanics and nuclear physics. Oppenheimer helped create the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wave functions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and ear...
Oppenheimer died of throat cancer in Princeton, New Jersey on February 18, 1967 at aged 62. His remains were cremated and scattered in the ocean near his beach house in Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands.
In 2023, Christopher Nolan directed a movie based on Oppenheimer's life with Irish actor Cillian Murphyplaying Oppenheimer.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a 2005 biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project which produced the first nuclear weapons, written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin over a period of 25 years. It won numerous awards, including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for ...
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" ―J. Robert Oppenheimer[src] Oppenheimer is a 2023 War & Drama Film that is directed by Christopher Nolan, Cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema, Produced by Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Composed by Ludwig Göransson and written by Christopher Nolan and Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin (based on their book). The film stars Cillian ...
The Oppenheimer family lived at 155 Riverside Dr., Manhattan, in an apartment with fine European furniture, servants, and original paintings by Picasso, Rembrandt, and van Gogh. Robert was a solitary and precocious child who enjoyed mineralogy and writing poetry. The Oppenheimers were a non-observant Jewish family and sent young Oppenheimer to ...
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Mar 13, 2024 · Robert Oppenheimer et al., Report of the General Advisory Committee, 1949. There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry …. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
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