J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
It worked.
The Scientific Project that developed the Atomic Bomb. Oppenheimer was the chief scientist developing the atomic bomb. However he was a theoretical physicist who had little personal experience making things that had to actually work. It worked flawlessly just as all the theory predicted it would.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1904-1967, Physicist and Scientific Director of the Manhattan Project First words when the test atomic bomb exploded, 1945
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico.
