Robert J Oppenheimer Short Biography

Robert J Oppenheimer Intro

Name	Robert Oppenheimer
Nicknames	Oppie, The Chief
Other names	Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Famous for	Leading the Manhattan Project and the Los Alamos Laboratory
Profession	Physicist, professor

Date of birth	April 22, 1904
Age	62 (at the time of his death)
Sex	Male
Religion	(by birth, but not practicing)
Height	5 Ft. 10 in (178 cm)
– Weight	150 lbs. (68 kg)
Zodiac sign	Taurus
Profession	Professor, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study
Hobbies	Reading, hiking, horseback riding, gardening
Habits	Smoking, drinking, speaking multiple languages

He was a brilliant intellectual, having graduated from Harvard University in 1925 and obtained his doctorate in 1927 from the University of Gottingen, Germany. He was recognized as a significant figure in quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and thermodynamics.
At the age of fifteen, he was the youngest Professional Member of the New York Mineralogical Society, who all have a fervor for rocks and minerals ever since he was a little kid.
On three occasions – 1945, 1951, and 1967 – he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics, but he was never awarded. It was natural that one foolishly thought about the prize and was completely absorbed by its contemplation.
Simultaneously, he was a womanizer who bested most of his colleagues – among many affairs were his students and fellow scholars.
When, in 1945 during the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico, he said: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”, he was quoting the Hindu Bhagavad Gita.

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