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Robert J. Oppenheimer

Robert J. Oppenheimer. Born April 22, 1904 Died on February 18, 1967 Famous for the creation of the atomic bomb By: Jeffrey Simmons Period 6. http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=robert-oppenheimer-documentary. Colleges and Professions.

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Robert J. Oppenheimer

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  1. Robert J. Oppenheimer • Born April 22, 1904 • Died on February 18, 1967 • Famous for the creation of the atomic bomb By: Jeffrey Simmons Period 6 http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=robert-oppenheimer-documentary

  2. Colleges and Professions • Oppenheimer enrolled in Harvard in the autumn of 1922. • When at Harvard Oppenheimer planned to be a chemist but quickly switched to physics. • Robert graduated from Harvard in 1925. • Oppenheimer went to study under Max Born at the University of Gottingen in 1926. • Robert returned to Harvard in 1927. • Oppenheimer accepted two professorships one at the University of California and at the California Institute of Technology. • Oppenheimer also established a world-class research center for theoretical physics in Berkeley.

  3. Discoveries and Research • Oppenheimer discovered that the electron was not the antimatter of protons. • Robert also predicted that there was a positron. • In 1942, the U.S. government organized a collective effort, called the Manhattan Project, with the objective of creating the atomic bomb. • Oppenheimer was selected to be part of the Manhattan Project. • Oppenheimer witnessed the first explosion of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945.

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