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 genius who graduated from Harvard University in 1925 and earned his PhD from the University of Gottingen in Germany in 1927. He made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and thermodynamics.
He was the youngest member of the New York Mineralogical Society at the age of 15. He had a passion for collecting minerals and rocks since he was a child.
Thrice was he put forth as a contender for the coveted Nobel Prize in Physics, in the years of our Lord 1945, 1951, and 1967. However, the lustrous laurel eluded his grasp, and he remained bereft of its glory throughout his lifetime.
He was also a Casanova who had many affairs with women, including his students and colleagues.
He quoted a line from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita when he witnessed the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico in 1945: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

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