Julius Robert Oppenheimer, also called the “Father of the Atomic Bomb”, was born on April the 22nd of 1904. Oppenheimer was a prominent bright student from the beginning, graduating valedictorian from his high school in 1921 and summa cum laude in 1925 at Harvard. Oppenheimer majored in chemistry although he excelled at a wide variety of subjects, including physics. The United States’ government was warned by Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard about the incoming destruction if the Nazis were to produce an atomic bomb first. The world was in a war and desperate times called for desperate measures. This prompted the founding of the Manhattan Project, a project dedicated to the development of a nuclear weapon. Scientist were recruited to work on
