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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

April 22, 1904(62)

Day of Death

February 18, 1967

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

Роберт ОппенгеймерJulius Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Acting

Biography

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project – the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer was among those who observed the Trinity test in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945.

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