The American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) made fundamental contributions to theoretical physics and was director of the atomic energy research project at Los Alamos, N.Mex. On April 22, 1904, J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose father was a...

Oppenheimer was born into a wealthy family in New York City on April 22, 1904. He attended Harvard, Cambridge, and Göttingen universities. He worked under Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge and received his doctorate in physics in 1927 after working...

Theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was a pioneer in the field of quantum mechanics , the study of the energy of atomic particles. His research on protons and their relation to electrons led directly to the discovery of a new particle, the...

J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) was born in New York City on April 22 of a privileged, assimilated German-Jewish family. Known widely as the "father of the atomic bomb," Oppenheimer also thought that physicists had special...

1904-1967 American Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer led the team that developed the first atomic bomb. Between 1943 and 1945, he directed the laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the bomb was designed and built. Oppenheimer was born in New York...

J. Robert Oppenheimer[1] (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los...

Unclear Physicist While Dubya plays nuclear chicken with Iran, Oppenheimer is the right play to revive In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer By Heinar Kipphardt Connellv Theater 220 East 4th Street 212-868-4444 Halfa century ago, red...

Imagining Robert Oppenheimer's life By ROBERT ALLEN PAPINCHAK Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, March 25, 2001 History serves James Thackara well. Last year, after 25 years in the making, he explored the sweeping saga of World War II in...

The Metropolitan Opera and the English National Opera will co-produce stagings of John Adams' "Doctor Atomic" and a new work by Osvaldo Golijov."Doctor Atomic," which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera in October 2005, will open at the Met on Oct. 13,...

Today is Sunday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2007. There are 316 days left in the year. This is the Chinese New Year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 18, 1885, Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the United States for the first...