1. Oppenheimer - Noun
2. Oppenheimer - Proper noun
United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967)
Source: WordNetThe great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. David Ben-Gurion
Abraham Pais said that Oppenheimer himself thought that one of his failures at the institute was being unable to bring together scholars from the natural sciences and the humanities. Source: Internet
According to his brother, at the time Oppenheimer simply exclaimed, "It worked." Source: Internet
According to the historian Gregg Herken, this naming could have been an allusion to Jean Tatlock, who had committed suicide a few months previously and had in the 1930s introduced Oppenheimer to Donne's work. Source: Internet
After the successful Trinity nuclear test July 16, 1945, which was the very first nuclear detonation, the Manhattan project lead manager J. Robert Oppenheimer recalled: We knew the world would not be the same. Source: Internet
Andres Oppenheimer is a Latin America correspondent for the Miami Herald. Source: Internet