Brief introduction of Oppenheimer, a World War II figure

Robert Oppenheimer Robert Oppenheimer (J Robert Oppenheimer,1April 22, 904-1February 80967 180967) is an American Jewish physicist and one of the main leaders of the Manhattan Project.

Oppenheimer was born in a Jewish family in New York, USA, and graduated from Harvard University 1925. After that, he went to Cambridge University in England to study theoretical physics, joined the famous Cavendish laboratory, and 1926 transferred to the University of G? ttingen in Germany, where he studied under Born. 1927 received his Ph.D. from the University of G? ttingen, Germany with a paper on quantum mechanics. /kloc-in the summer of 0/929, Oppenheimer returned to America. Later, he taught at Berkeley University and the University of California.

1in August, 942, Oppenheimer was appointed as the director of the "Manhattan Project" laboratory for developing atomic bombs, and established the Los Alamos laboratory in the desert of New Mexico. 1on August 6, 945, the United States dropped its first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

From 1947 to 1966, Oppenheimer was the president of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey. 1947 served as the chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, which, together with Einstein, opposed the trial production of hydrogen bombs, believing that it would lead to an arms race and threaten world peace.

1953, the U.S. government censored him, but the security manager of the U.S. Energy Commission did not find him guilty of treason, but decided that he could no longer touch military secrets and dismissed him. After being dismissed, Oppenheimer taught at Princeton University, and the American Federation of Scientists protested his censorship, believing that he was a victim of McCarthyism. 1963 awarded the Fermi Prize to Oppenheimer. 1967 died of laryngeal cancer in Princeton.