The theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was director of the laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, where scientists working on the Manhattan Project in the mid-1940s developed the atomic bomb.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 22, 1904. He graduated from Harvard University in 1925 and went to England to do research at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory. In 1927 he received his doctorate from Gottingen University in Germany,
