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    Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born April 22, 1904 to Ella Friedman, an artist and Julius Oppenheimer, a wealthy German textile merchant in New York City, New York. As a child Robert was interested in geology and was said to have even contacted locally famous geologist to discuss the rock formations he observed in Central Park. At the age of 17 Oppenheimer began attending Harvard, a prestigious and well known private University. He graduated Harvard with a major in Chemistry in May of 1925. Later

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    Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 in New York. His parents were German Jewish immigrants. His dad was Julius S. Oppenheimer and was a wealthy German textile merchant. His mother Ella Friedman an artist, was from a Jewish descendent. He is often called “the father of the atomic bomb” since he basically created it with the help of a few other men. He got his P.H.D at the age of 22 while attending other universities. He later married and had two children. As a kid he didn’t speak German

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    Robert Oppenheimer's father, Julius Oppenheimer, was a poor Jewish immigrant who came from Germany in 1888 at the age of just 17. Despite not being able to speak a word of English, Julius was able to find work in his uncle's textile importing business. By the time Julius Oppenheimer was in his thirties, he was a partner in the company and had become quite wealthy. Soon after, Julius fell in love with an artist and art teacher named Ella who was born in Baltimore. On April 22, 1904, their son Robert

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    The play Oppenheimer follows the story of J Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues on their journey to discover and invent the atomic bomb. As the book is about the creation of this atomic weapon, the entirety of it relates to morals in some shape or form. Throughout the reading of the play I kept thinking about the moral implications of the work they were doing and what might each individual character be thinking of it. There were two parts of the play that made me really come up with this question

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    Kayla Yaede January 24, 2016 Honors History 7 Julius Robert Oppenheimer Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born into a wealthy family on April 22, 1904. Born in New York, this was the perfect era for a future physicist to be born. His father, a Jewish man, fled Europe as a teenager in order to escape religious persecution. Even though prejudism still existed towards Jews in the states, it was not nearly as harsh as it was in Europe. His mother was also a Jew, but had family living in New York, which

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    By the summer of 1945, Oppenheimer was ready to test the first bomb. On July 16, 1945 at the trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico, scientist of the Manhattan Project readied themselves to watch the detonation of the world’s first bomb. Scientist Dr. Albert Einstein, who fled Nazi persecution, and Enrico Fermi, who escaped Italy, were now living in the U.S. They had agreed that the President needs to be informed of the dangers of the atomic technology! Fermi went off to Washington

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    The Manhattan Project led by Robert Oppenheimer gave a birth to world’s first mass annihilation device, nuclear bomb. It was a part of a war effort to end the World War II and it worked on Japan by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ever since, there has been numerous nuclear testing carried out by various countries. Most has commenced on sea or in middle of the desert during 1940s to 1960s. Various countries still attempt testings of the nuclear bombs today. Now, there has been 23 nuclear

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    “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Robert Oppenheimer once said, “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” He said this after 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," (J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes). Robert Oppenheimer is called the Father of the Atomic Bomb. As the bomb went off at the Trinity test site the

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    Great Personalities of World War II: Robert Oppenheimer July 16, 1945; 05:29:21 A.M Mountain Western Time: [1] a light stronger than a thousand suns filled the sky in the deserts of New Mexico, the father of the deadliest instrument ever used in warfare grimly remarked: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” The successful detonation of the first Atomic Bomb triggered an arms races beyond the scope of most people's imagination; it immediately and fundamentally changed the conduct of nations

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    what [we] think, free to think what [we] will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.” J. Robert Oppenheimer A man who is almost synonymous with the development of the atomic bomb as well as with the conflicts between the desires of the government

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