Julius Robert Oppenheimer

Julius Robert Oppenheimer

• Born: April 22, 1904, New York City, New York, United States.
• Died: February 18, 1967, Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
• Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
• He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for leading the Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapon during World War II.
• The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico.
• Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.