J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Scientific director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos; theoretical physicist and, afterwards, an advocate of international control of nuclear weapons
1904, New York City, United States — 1967, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
United States
J. Robert Oppenheimer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Scientific director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos; theoretical physicist and, afterwards, an advocate of international control of nuclear weapons
Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist and the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, and is profiled among the leading minds in 'Thinkers of the Twentieth Century' for his scientific and intellectual influence. Born into a secular German Jewish family in New York, he made important contributions to quantum mechanics and astrophysics before leading the wartime laboratory at Los Alamos. He later became a prominent voice on the ethics of nuclear weapons.
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Scientific director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos; theoretical physicist and, afterwards, an advocate of international control of nuclear weapons
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