J. Robert Oppenheimer

1904 - 1967

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project during World War II. He made significant contributions to nuclear physics and is remembered for his leadership in the development of the first atomic weapons.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

A Physicist Comments," The Technology Review, 1947, p. 316

Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.

As long as men are free to ask what they will, free to say what they think, free to think what they must, science will never regress and freedom itself will never be wholly lost.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. J.