J Robert Oppenheimer
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About J Robert Oppenheimer
J Robert Oppenheimer, born in 1904 in NYC, was a theoretical physicist who earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1925 and a PhD in physics. He was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project and later became the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during WWII. Known as the 'father of the atomic bomb,' Oppenheimer famously said, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
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Physics, nuclear weapons, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory, WWII, atomic bomb, theoretical physics, chemistry, polyglot, poetry
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Quantum mechanics, theoretical physics, and the poetry of John Donne.