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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Born

in New York, The United States

April 22, 1904

Died

February 18, 1967

Genre

Theoretical Physics, Physics, Nuclear Weapons Development

Influences

Bertrand Russell, Hans Bethe, Percy Williams Bridgman, Niels Bohr, Alf ...more

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Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. 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."

After the war he became a chief adviser to the newly created United States Atomic Energy Commission and used that position to lobby for international control of nuclear power to avert nuclear proliferation ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 228 ratings · 32 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Open Mind 3.78 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1955 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science and the Common Understanding 3.66 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1953 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community 3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncommon Sense 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Transcript of hearing before personnel security board and texts of principal documents and letters 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flying Trapeze: Three Crises For Physicists (Whidden Lectures, 1962) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1964 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quando il futuro sarà storia: otto lezioni dopo Hiroshima by J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emanuele Menietti (Foreword) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of the End of Things: Lectures on Civilization and Empire by J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Togo Salmon, Northrop Frye 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hombre y ciencia: un desafío al mundo by J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Merk 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LA SCIENCE ET LE BON SENS 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

tags: bhagavad-gita, death, destruction, nuclear-weapons

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“In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

tags: manhatttan-project, nuclear-bomb, science, wwii

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