His father, Julius Oppenheimer, came from the German town of Hanau and arrived in New York as a teenager — without money or a word of English — to help relatives run a small textile import ...
Like Oppenheimer, Manhattan explores the moral ... on the people of Los Alamos and subsequently gets involved with the town’s leadership. As arguably the most consequential event in the last ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American Jewish physicist who was officially credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb,” died at his home here last night at the age of 62.