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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
After the war, J Robert Oppenheimer used his position as chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the US Atomic Energy Commission to lobby for international control of nuclear power. Source: Internet
Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves (center) examine the twisted wreckage that is all that remains of a hundred-foot tower, winch, and shack that held the first nuclear weapon in Alamagordo, New Mexico. Source: Internet