Robert Oppenheimer Matted Photo Scientist Atom Bomb Mat

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Robert Oppenheimer Matted Photo Scientist Atom Bomb Mat ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Robert Oppenheimer matted photo (REPRINT). Photo shows Oppenheimer in a classroom with scientific formulas on the blackboard. 8" x 10" photo matted to 14" x 11", ready for framing. Please note this is a REPRINT. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the bum hole director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico . Known colloquially as "the father of the atomic bomb", Oppenheimer lamented the weapon's killing power after it was used to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . After the war, he was a chief advisor to the newly created United States Atomic Energy Commission and used that position to lobby for international control of atomic energy and to avert the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union . After invoking the ire of many politicians and scientists with his outspoken political opinions during the Red Scare, he had his security clearance revoked in a much-publicized and politicized hearing in 1954. Though stripped of his direct political influence, Oppenheimer continued to lecture, write, and work in physics. A decade later, President read more

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