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U S Government University Of California
1,159 words(b. April 22, 1904, New York City -- d. Feb. 18, 1967, Princeton, N. J. , U. S. ), U. S. theoretical physicist and science administrator, noted as director of the Los Alamos laboratory during dEvelopment of the atomic bomb (1943 - 45) and as director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1947 - 66). Accusations as to his loyalty and reliability as a security risk led to a government hearing that resulted in the loss of his security clearance and of his position as adviser to the highes...
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Oppenheimer And The Atomic Bomb
1,958 words... y concerned about wining to prove to himself and the world he was a great scientist. In 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson reinstated him and his reputation in the United States. He immediately received the Enrico Fermi Award of the Atomic Energy Commission. He retired at Princeton in 1966 and died of cancer later that year. So in the end of his life Oppenheimer lectured to the world on science and education until his death. He gave the most attention to the issue of the nuclear arms race and tried to p...
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J Robert Oppenheimer Bomb Was Dropped
1,928 wordsIt? s strange how the thousands of events that made up one man? s life eventually had a role in the fate of almost 200 thousand Japanese people and later the entire world. Here is the life of the one man. The man is J. Robert Oppenheimer. So little had an impact on so much. He was the man who was in charge of the Manhattan Project. It was the U. S. project to make an atomic bomb. A bomb with, at the time, unimaginable power. A bomb so powerful it could single-handedly destroy an entire city. J. ...
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J Robert Oppenheimer World War Ii
822 wordsJ. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer, a pioneer in the field of nuclear science. He worked with Albert Einstein on the atomic bomb and headed the Manhattan Project in November 1942. J. Robert was born to Ella and Robert Oppenheimer who were both Jewish and emigrated from Germany in 1888. Robert was always interested in science and helped his grandfather study geology. He excelled through school but had a difficult time in other parts of his life due to not being around people his own age ...
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J Robert Oppenheimer Dramatic Monologue
1,546 wordsOn " The Testimony Of J. Robert Oppenheimer" On " The Testimony Of J. Robert Oppenheimer" John Get Ais " The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer, " with its conspicuous subtitle of " A Fiction, " belongs in a series of dramatic monologues in Ais collection Sin, where she speaks in the grim voices of those in extreme historical circumstances John Kennedy after his assassination, Joseph McCarthy fantasizing about unlimited power, a leftist dying in Madrid dur...
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