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Robert Oppenheimer Research Paper

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Sergio Ponce
Mrs. Givens
Period 4 English 9
March 2, 2015
Robert J. Oppenheimer “If the radiance of a thousand suns/ Were to burst into the sky/ That would be like/ The splendor of the Mighty One.../ I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds”. Robert J. Oppenheimer said this after the first test explosion of the atomic bomb. He was a brilliant theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project in 1945. Together with other scientists he created the atomic bomb for use in World War II. Robert J. Oppenheimer was born in New York City, New York on April 22, 1904. As a child he had a quick mind, had many interests and a huge appetite for learning. At age eleven he was admitted to the New York Mineralogical Society. At twelve he presented a paper …show more content…

He studied chemistry and physics. Despite his many courses, he graduated from Harvard in three years, and left the United States for Europe. There he went to Cambridge University and the University of Gottingen in Germany. While studying there, he received his doctorate and left for Switzerland to work with a physicist named Wolfgang Pauli (J. Robert Oppenheimer). Following his years of study, Oppenheimer became a professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography). Students often complained that he set an impossible pace in the classroom. Even so, many of his students admired him and willingly repeated the courses he offered. Oppenheimer was responsible for moving theoretical physics in America from something obscure to something of more preeminence (J. Robert …show more content…

Roosevelt created the U.S. atomic research program. They were trying to create a weapon that could harness the energy of the split nuclei. Scientists knew that uranium was the perfect element to use, but they didn’t know the amount to use to create a large, yet controlled, explosion. Oppenheimer, being the problem solver that he is, came through. On October 21, 1941 he presented his results of how much critical mass was needed. 220 pounds of pure uranium. Created that large amount of pure uranium was also a problem, requiring large plants and many scientists. Oppenheimer again worked for an answer. He became the director of a new research lab in Los Alamos. (J. Robert

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