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Robert Oppenheimer
By Ashlynn lemon
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds
Tuesday, March 26, 13
Early Studies
• An indirect leader
• Stayed to himself
• More of a scholar than a leader
• Deemed a Theoretical Physicist
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Manhattan Project
• Germans split the atom!
• Established in 1941 under fear of the Germans
• Oppenheimer appointed director in 1942
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Invention of the Bomb
• Summer school for bomb theory.
• Thin Man first attempt at a nuclear bomb
• Trinity first artificial nuclear explosion
kālo'smi lokakṣayakṛtpravṛddho lokānsamāhartumiha pravṛttaḥ
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Fat Man and Little Boy
• Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki August 9th 1945
• Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima August 6th 1945
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His Legacy
• Father of the A-Bomb.
• Chairman of the General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission
• Resistance to the H-Bomb
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Work Cited
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/j_robert_oppenheimer.html
• http://students.cis.uab.edu/cierra90/lab_1_1/Mead%20and%20Oppenheimer.html
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/baoppe.html
• http://www.ushistory.org/us/51f.asp
• http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/pre-cold-war/manhattan-project/index.htm
• http://main.abqjournal.netdna-cdn.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Manhattan-Project-Voi_Gree2.jpg
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX65.html
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