Julius Robert Oppenheimer was a key part of the Manhattan project which created the atomic bomb. As well as a physicist, scientist, engineer and Academic. He was involved in politics before and after the invention of the atomic bomb. Where before it he supported the bomb’s invention after he denounced his creation.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born April 22, 1904 in New York City. Born into a German Jewish immigrant family, Oppenheimer went to Harvard University later traveling to England where he studied at the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge he began atomic research and after a single year continued his research with Max Born at Gottingen University in Germany. At Gottingen he would receive his doctorate as well as meet Niels Bohr. Eventually he would establish with the help of Born the Born-Oppenheimer Method in the quantum molecular theory. Seeing the rise in power of Nazi Germany as well as their highly scientific and aggressive actions, Oppenheimer took to politics with fellow physicists Albert Einstein and …show more content…
Beginning with a mere $6,000 ($86,400 today) and ending with a $2 billion (26.08 Trillion today) in 1945. On July 16, 1945 the project delivered a result and was tested at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The explosion was the first nuclear explosion in human history and resulted in an explosion generating 84 TJ of power. The resulting explosion even created a new mineral that was named Trinitite, theorized to have formed by glass that rose up into the initial fireball and instantaneously melted and rained down liquid. The program was believed to be a major victory ahead of their former foe, but as they had learned the German program was canceled in 1943 due to belief that it would not have yielded any results as well as budget cuts. At the sight of the explosion Oppenheimer uttered his famous quote “Now I am become death, the destroyer of
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born April 22, 1904 in New York City. Born into a German Jewish immigrant family, Oppenheimer went to Harvard University later traveling to England where he studied at the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge he began atomic research and after a single year continued his research with Max Born at Gottingen University in Germany. At Gottingen he would receive his doctorate as well as meet Niels Bohr. Eventually he would establish with the help of Born the Born-Oppenheimer Method in the quantum molecular theory. Seeing the rise in power of Nazi Germany as well as their highly scientific and aggressive actions, Oppenheimer took to politics with fellow physicists Albert Einstein and …show more content…
Beginning with a mere $6,000 ($86,400 today) and ending with a $2 billion (26.08 Trillion today) in 1945. On July 16, 1945 the project delivered a result and was tested at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The explosion was the first nuclear explosion in human history and resulted in an explosion generating 84 TJ of power. The resulting explosion even created a new mineral that was named Trinitite, theorized to have formed by glass that rose up into the initial fireball and instantaneously melted and rained down liquid. The program was believed to be a major victory ahead of their former foe, but as they had learned the German program was canceled in 1943 due to belief that it would not have yielded any results as well as budget cuts. At the sight of the explosion Oppenheimer uttered his famous quote “Now I am become death, the destroyer of