Robert Oppenheimer, theoretical physicist and one of the “fathers of the atomic bomb”, died on this day, February 18, in 1967. He was born in New York City in 1904. Karsh photographed Robert Oppenheimer in 1956 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

2023年7月31日 · His formal portrait of Oppenheimer staring right into the camera, holding his pipe in his right hand but with the stem in his mouth, and a black chalkboard behind him with mathematical symbols in chalk, may be the single most iconic photograph of …

2019年7月10日 · American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) is most famous for being among those who are credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb”. His work led to the first atomic bomb being successfully detonated …

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This portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer appeared on the 1948 Time magazine cover featured in the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer (2023). The physicist was known as “the father of the atomic bomb.” After the United States dropped nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Japan surrendered, ending World War II (1939–45).

An informal portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who served as director of the Los Alamos laboratory , for the atom bomb project...

J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈ ɒ p ən h aɪ m ər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear …

Portrait of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the Manhattan Project. Photograph courtesy of and used with permission by the National Security Research Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Download Original File

2023年7月10日 · This portrait is included in the film. The film is the true story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s journey from driven and ambitious scientist to remorseful and tormented man struck hard by the gravity of what he had done.