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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
(April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American
theoretical physicist
and professor of physics at the
University of California, Berkeley
. As the wartime head of the
Los Alamos Laboratory
, Oppenheimer is among those who are called the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the
Manhattan Project
, the
World War II
project that developed the first
nuclear weapons
that ended the war with the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
. The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the
Trinity test
in
New Mexico
; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the
Bhagavad Gita
: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
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