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3 days ago · J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈɒpənhaɪmər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
5 days ago · An encounter with Max Born (Nobel Prize 1959) led him to the University of Göttingen in Germany where the field of theoretical physics and quantum mechanics were starting to take hold. Under the tutelage of Born, Oppenheimer received his PhD in 1927.
19 hours ago · The code name "Trinity" was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, inspired by the poetry of John Donne. The test, both planned and directed by Kenneth Bainbridge , was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico , on what was the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range (renamed the White Sands Proving ...
19 hours ago · Oppenheimer ordered post-test health reports held in the strictest secrecy. (Of course, you did not see this, or anything related, in Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”) When W.L. Laurence’s famous report on the Trinity test was published just after the Hiroshima bombing he made no mention of radiation at all.
4 days ago · Strauss was the driving force behind physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance hearing, held in April and May 1954 before an AEC Personnel Security Board, in which Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked. As a result, Strauss often has been regarded as a villain in American history. President Dwight D.
19 hours ago · Oppenheimer ordered post-test health reports held in the strictest secrecy. (Of course, you did not see this, or anything related, in Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”) When W.L. Laurence’s famous report on the Trinity test was published just after the Hiroshima bombing he made no mention of radiation at all.
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5 days ago · He was afraid that if Nazi Germany built it first, it would conquer the world. Szilard joined the Manhattan Project, though he was located not in Los Alamos but in the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratories.
