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J. Robert Oppenheimer

1904 - 1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons. Born in New York City, Oppenheimer obtained a degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1925 and a doctorate in physics from the University of Göttingen in Germany in 1927, studying under Max Born. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. Robert Oppenheimer is the 4th most popular physicist (up from 15th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from United States (up from 45th in 2019) and the most popular American Physicist.

J. Robert Oppenheimer is most famous for being the director of the Manhattan Project, which was a project to develop the first atomic bomb.

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Among physicists, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 4 out of 851. Before him are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Marie Curie. After him are Stephen Hawking, Wilhelm Röntgen, Michael Faraday, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, and Albert A. Michelson.

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Among people born in 1904, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 1. After him are Salvador Dalí, Deng Xiaoping, Pablo Neruda, Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Seuss, Umberto II of Italy, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Cary Grant, Jean Gabin, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and B. F. Skinner. Among people deceased in 1967, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 2. Before him is Che Guevara. After him are Puyi, Konrad Adenauer, René Magritte, Vivien Leigh, John Nance Garner, Albert Lutuli, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Ed White, Spencer Tracy, and Mohammad Mosaddegh.

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Among people born in United States, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 6 out of 20,380. Before him are Donald Trump (1946), Jimmy Carter (1924), Thomas Jefferson (1743), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), and Thomas Edison (1847). After him are Muhammad Ali (1942), Andrew Jackson (1767), Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Pope Leo XIV (1955), William McKinley (1843), and Al Pacino (1940).

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Among physicists born in United States, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 1. After him are Charles H. Townes (1915), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), Richard Feynman (1918), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), and Percy Williams Bridgman (1882).

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