J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomi
Oppenheimer in 1944
Oppenheimer in the Harvard University yearbook, 1926
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Laboratory in Leiden, Netherlands, July 1927. Oppenheimer is in the middle row, second from the left.
University of California Radiation Laboratory staff (including Robert R. Wilson and Nobel prize winners Ernest Lawrence, Edwin McMillan, and Luis Walter Alvarez) on the magnet yoke for the 60-inch (152 cm) cyclotron, 1938. Oppenheimer is the tall figure holding a pipe in the top row, just right of center.
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingd
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German Experimental Pile Haigerloch April 1945