Oppenheimer

[ op-uhn-hahy-mer ]

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Oppenheimer

/ ˈɒpənˌhaɪmə /

OppenheimerJ(ulius) Robert19041967MUSSCIENCE: physicist J ( ulius ) Robert. 1904–67, US nuclear physicist. He was director of the Los Alamos laboratory (1943–45), which produced the first atomic bomb. He opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb (1949) and in 1953 was alleged to be a security risk. He was later exonerated

Oppenheimer

/ ŏp′ən-hī′mər /

American physicist who directed the Los Alamos, New Mexico, laboratory during the development of the first atomic bomb (1942–1945). After World War II, he became an advocate for the peaceful use of atomic energy and opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb.

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In fact, Teller was competing with Oppenheimer for resources.

He told the hearing of Oppenheimer: “I would feel personally more secure if public matters would rest in other hands.”

A face in a sea of faces, how could you know he hid among them like Oppenheimer, building a lab to split the atom.

Joshua Oppenheimer invited some of the perpetrators, now old men, to restage their crimes.

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Oppenheimer and Gottlieb object to commercial preparations on different grounds.

Oppenheimer and Gottlieb report cases of mixed hay fever where the skin reacts to pollen but the pollen extract failed to cure.

Even into the living grave Oppenheimer had occupied for ten years had my fame, or notoriety, rather, penetrated.

Oppenheimer told me he had not learned of the Russo-Japanese war until two years after it was over.

I think, had Oppenheimer had the opportunity for thorough education, he would have made a Marinetti or a Haeckel.

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