Oppenheimer; father of the atomic bomb (jan 15, 1946 – dec 15, 1946)
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J. Robert Oppenheimer. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and responsible for the research and design of an atomic bomb. He is often known as the “father of the atomic bomb."
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