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- NAME: Julius Robert Oppenheimer
- OCCUPATION: Academic, Engineer, Physicist
- BIRTH DATE: April 22, 1904
- DEATH DATE: February 18, 1967
- EDUCATION: Harvard University, Göttingen University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New York City, New York
- PLACE OF DEATH: Princeton, New Jersey
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J. Robert Oppenheimer is was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer is was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. He strongly opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, however, and in 1953 was suspended from secret nuclear research as an alleged communist sympathizer, a case backed by Edward Teller. In 1963 he was reinstated and awarded the Enrico Fermi Award.© 2012 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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