Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is most remembered as the “father of the atomic bomb” and was the physicist in charge of the Manhattan Project, the name given to the top-secret project that ...

The implication that the Nazis could develop extremely powerful weapons prompted President Roosevelt to establish the Manhattan Project in 1941. In June 1942, Robert Oppenheimer was appointed its ...

Overseeing the project was US Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. You might recognize Oppenheimer's name from Christopher Nolan's 2023 blockbuster movie.

For years, the story of that name remained untold, for good reason. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site ...

Director Christopher Nolan reveals a frightening detail about the Manhattan project, and how his crew brought it to the screen. J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967 ...

Robert Oppenheimer ... code-named the Manhattan Project. But in reality "Oppenheimer and Einstein were not friends," nuclear-weapons historian Alex Wellerstein told Insider.

J. Robert Oppenheimer During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, where he led the effort to develop the world’s first nuclear weapons. Latest ...