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  1. www.architecturaldigest.com › story › oppenheimersHere’s What Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos Actually Looked Like

    Aug 4, 2023 · The interiors of Oppenheimer’s house and the Fuller Lodge were shot on location, while the exteriors of Los Alamos were created at Ghost Ranch, elsewhere in New Mexico, per De Jong. Researcher ...

  2. www.britannica.com › biography › Katherine-OppenheimerKatherine Oppenheimer | Biography, Family, Death, & Facts

    Mar 26, 2024 · October 27, 1972, Panama City, Panama (aged 62) Katherine Oppenheimer (born August 8, 1910, Recklinghausen, Germany—died October 27, 1972, Panama City, Panama) German American botanist, biologist, and wife of Los Alamos Laboratory director J. Robert Oppenheimer. After her birth in Germany, Katherine Puening moved with her family to Pittsburgh ...

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Katherine_OppenheimerKatherine Oppenheimer - Wikipedia

    Los Alamos was known to the occupants as "the Hill" and to the Manhattan Project as Site Y. Oppenheimer became the director of Project Y. Kitty abdicated the role of post commander's wife to Martha Parsons, the wife of Robert's deputy, Navy Captain William S. Parsons. She put her biologist training to use working for the director of the Health ...

  5. www.nps.gov › people › women-of-the-manhattanWomen of the Manhattan Project: Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer

    Kitty Oppenheimer, a botanist, was the wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory. Recklinghausen, Germany. August 8, 1910. Panama City, Panama. October 27, 1972. Cremated, ashes scattered off St. John, US Virgin Islands. Katherine (Kitty) Puening (1910-1972) was born in Germany, and her family moved to the US two ...

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  7. www.cbc.ca › news › worldHere's the story not told in Nolan's Oppenheimer about those ...

    Jul 30, 2023 · "Taking land for Los Alamos was not an aberration, it's what the United States had been doing since 1848," said State Historian of New Mexico Rob Martinez, whose great-uncle worked at the lab.

  8. ahf.nuclearmuseum.org › ahf › profileKatherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer - Nuclear Museum

    Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, born Katherine Puening (1910-1972) was a German-American botanist and wife of Los Alamos Scientific Director J. Robert Oppenheimer.Kitty was briefly a lab technician at Los Alamos under the supervision of Dr. Louis Hempelmann, but quit after a year. As a trained botanist, Kitty felt stymied professionally at Los…

  9. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › exclusive-behindAn Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Los Alamos Lab ...

    Los Alamos had views of the same mountain range. During the last two years of World War II, between 1,500 and 8,200 scientists and staff members lived on the Ranch School campus and in a quickly ...