J.Robert Oppenheimer
J.Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-67). US physicist After graduating from Harvard University he did atomic research at the Cavendish Laboratory, cambridge. He was chosen in 1943 to direct a new scientific laboratory for the Manhattan Project, which aimed to use nuclear energy for military purposes. This was established at Los Alamos, New Mexico, and produced the first atomic bomb. The first nuclear explosion took place on 16 July 1945, at Almogordo, New Mexico. Oppenheimer later opposed US development of the hydrogen bomb. He was accused of being a security risk during Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist witch-hunt, but was rehabilitated in 1963, when he received the Enrico Fermi Award from President Johnson.
“The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Open Mind (1955)”
