1904-1967 American Physicist
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York City. He took an early interest in geology. He sent letters to the New York Minerology Club, who then suggested he submit a paper. This paper was his first published work, at the age of 12.
He taught theoretical physics concurrently at the California Institute of Technology and University of California at Berkley. He investigated electron-positron pairs, cosmic ray theory, and deuteron reactions.
He joined the Manhattan Project in 1942 and directed the Los Alamos laboratory between 1943 and 1945, where he featured centrally in the Making of the Atomic Bomb and became known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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In 1963 the Atomic Energy Commission gave him the Enrico Fermi Award.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX65.html
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