Robert Oppenheimer

By Ashlynn lemon

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds

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Early Studies

• An indirect leader

• Stayed to himself

• More of a scholar than a leader

• Deemed a Theoretical Physicist

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Manhattan Project

• Germans split the atom!

• Established in 1941 under fear of the Germans

• Oppenheimer appointed director in 1942

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Invention of the Bomb

• Summer school for bomb theory.

• Thin Man first attempt at a nuclear bomb

• Trinity first artificial nuclear explosion

kālo'smi lokakṣayakṛtpravṛddho lokānsamāhartumiha pravṛttaḥ

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Fat Man and Little Boy

• Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki August 9th 1945

• Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima August 6th 1945

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His Legacy

• Father of the A-Bomb.

• Chairman of the General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission

• Resistance to the H-Bomb

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Work Cited

• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/j_robert_oppenheimer.html

• http://students.cis.uab.edu/cierra90/lab_1_1/Mead%20and%20Oppenheimer.html

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/baoppe.html

• http://www.ushistory.org/us/51f.asp

• http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/pre-cold-war/manhattan-project/index.htm

• http://main.abqjournal.netdna-cdn.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Manhattan-Project-Voi_Gree2.jpg

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX65.html

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