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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Profession
Physicist
Died
Feb 18, 1967
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
New York City NY
About
Led America into the atomic era with his research into nuclear physics and supervision of the Los Alamos laboratories from the very beginning of the Manhattan Project. In 1953, after a military report linked him to Communists in the past, he lost his prestigious position within the U.S. government.
Family
He was born in New York City, his father Julius S. Oppenheimer was a successful textile merchant, and his mother Ella Friedman was a non-observant Jew. He was married to Katherine Puening Harrison from 1940 until his death in 1967 and they had two kids named Katherine and Peter Oppenheimer.

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