Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 in New York City to German-Jewish parents. ... Later, Born and Oppenheimer collaborated and published papers on collision theory. ... Oppenheimer became interested in politics with the rise of Hitlerism in Germany. ... Oppenheimer resigned his post in October of the same year. ... Oppenheimer soon began to show distaste toward the government. ...
Robert Oppenheimer, designed and built the first atomic bombs (Atomic). ... On July 16, 1945, Oppenheimer and Groves' units conducted a firing test of the lethal weapon in the New Mexico desert (Oppenheimer). ... Robert Oppenheimer, designed and built the first atomic bombs. ... refid=761574208> Microsoft Encarta " Oppenheimer, J. Robert," Online Encyclopedia 2003. 1997-2003 Microsoft Corporation. ...
Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton, and John Dunning in the United States, Frederic Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot in France, and Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Franz Strassman in Germany. (1) Each of these scientists raced to explain the conflicting results compiled from ingenious experimentation. ... From the list of atomic scientists Leslie groves appointed Robert Oppenheimer as the Scientific Director of the Manhattan Project. ...
Robert Oppenheimer."(Grolier 5) "Oppenheimer was the major force behind the Manhattan Project. ... Kistiakowsky and Oppenheimer both argued for such a test, but initially Groves was opposed. ... (Outlaw 3) Oppenheimer was ecstatic about the success of the bomb, but quoted a fragment from Bhagavad Gita. ...
1 What is an atomic bomb? The answer is a bomb whose violent explosive power is due to the sudden release of atomic energy resulting from the splitting of nuclei of a heavy chemical element by neutrons in a very rapid chain reaction. The Manhattan Project produced "Little Man" and "Fat Man", two ...
Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant theoretical physicist who was a professor at Berkeley and at Caltech. ... The frontline for research and construction was the Los Alamos Laboratory, formerly a boy's ranch school that was purchased by Oppenheimer. After continuing research in Uranium isotope separation, Oppenheimer was beginning to make progress, using Liquid Thermal Diffusion as a means to separate the Uranium 235 isotope from the rest of a sample of Uranium. ... Eventually, through about two months of construction at the Jornado del Muerto desert in central New Mexico, codenamed "Trini...
Robert Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb, quoted a fragment from Bhagavad Gita, "I am become death, the destroyer of the worlds(Larsen 94)." Ken Bainbridge, the test director, then told Oppenheimer, "Now we"re all sons of bitches." ...
Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist that headed the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb recalled that "I don't think there was any time where we worked harder at the speed-up than in the period after the German surrender.". ...
