Short history of Robert Oppenheimer
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Updated: 20 Jul 2023
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Robert Oppenheimer was bornThe Oppenheimer family moves to an estate in New York1922: He begins his undergraduate studies at Harvard University.Oppenheimer spends a year at the University of Cambridge, England, where he works with physicist Joseph John ThomsonNew
eventOppenheimer receives his PhD in physics from the University of Göttingen, Germany. His dissertation focuses on quantum mechanics.He becomes a professor of physics at the University of California, BerkeleyRobert Oppenheimer marries Katherine Puening Harrison, with her he has two children.In 1942, Oppenheimer was recruited to work on the Manhattan ProjectOppenheimer becomes the head of the theoretical physics division at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, leading the Manhattan Project's development of the atomic bomb.The first successful test of an atomic bomb, code-named "Trinity," takes place in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. From this moment on humanity, for the first time, possesed the power to destory itself.Robert becomes the chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the newly formed United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).Accused of having communist sympathies, robert goes through a security hearing, and his security clearance is revoked.He is awarded the Enrico Fermi Award for his contributions to science, particularly for his contribution in the development of atomic energy.Robert Oppenheimer passes away on February 18, 1967, in Princeton, New Jersey, at the age of 62.
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