Presentacion de oppenheimer

1. ROBERT
OPPENHEIMER
The father of the atomic bomb
10TH GRADE

2. J. (Julius) Robert Oppenheimer was born in New
York City on April 22, 1904. His parents, Julius S.
Oppenheimer, a wealthy German textile merchant,
and Ella Friedman, an artist, were of Jewish descent
but did not observe the religious traditions. He studied
at the Ethical Culture Society School, whose physics
laboratory has since been named for him

3. Entered Harvard in 1922, intending to become a chemist, but soon
switching to physics. He graduated summa cum laude in 1925 and
went to England to conduct research at Cambridge University's
Cavendish Laboratory, working under J.J. Thomson. His research
on atomic energy began in 1925 when he traveled to England to
study the energy processes of sub-atomic particles in the Cavendish
laboratory. A year later at the University of Gottingen, together
with Max Born, they developed their classic contribution to
quantum molecular theory, the "Born-Oppenheimer method".

4. In 1939, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard alerted the US
government to the dangers of nuclear power in the hands of the
Nazis. Oppenheimer shared his concern, and in 1942, he
initiated the Manhattan Project, an American military effort to
develop nuclear power for use in wartime. The project culminated
in August 1945 with the first nuclear detonation in the New
Mexico desert.
Disillusioned by the massive destruction and enormous cost of
death that the atomic bomb had caused in Japan, he resigned two
months later. During the postwar period he proposed the
international regulation of atomic energy to ensure peace. He
chaired the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy
Commission, which opposed the development of the hydrogen
bomb, which continued despite opposition from the commission

6. As director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Jersey from 1947 to 1966, he stimulated discussion and research in
quantum and relativistic physics. In 1953, a military security report
smeared him on the grounds that the scientist had links to the
Communist Party. A security hearing dismissed the charge but
barred his access to military secrets.
The Federation of American Scientists denounced Oppenheimer's
subjugation for what they called a "communist witch hunt." In 1963,
President Lyndon B. Johnson sought to redress these injustices by
honoring Oppenheimer with the Atomic Energy Commission's
prestigious Enrico Fermi Award.

7. Oppenheimer dropped out of Princeton in 1966, where
he died of throat cancer on February 18, 1967.

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