J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer 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.

American physicist (1898–1988)

upper bound to the mass of cold, nonrotating neutron stars

American banker and chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1896-1974)

The notion that the motion of atomic nuclei and electrons can be separated

American particle physicist (1912–1985)

German-American biologist and botanist (1910–1972)

American activist (1914-1944)

United States Army officer and engineer

lunar impact crater

American translator, writer and academic (1901–1985)

ordinary differential equation describing an isotropic spherical body in static gravitational equilibrium in general relativity

1954 United States Atomic Energy Commission investigation

Staff Director of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in 1949

1980 film by Jon H. Else