J. Robert Oppenheimer, who passed away on 18 February
1967, was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the
University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los
Alamos Laboratory and is often credited as the "father of the atomic
bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project—the World War II undertaking
that developed the first nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer was among those who
observed the Trinity test in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was
successfully detonated on July 16, 1945. He later remarked that the explosion
brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the
destroyer of worlds." In August 1945, the weapons were used in the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
J. Robert Oppenheimer Death Anniversary
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