As per our current Database, Robert Oppenheimer has been died on Feb 18, 1967 (age 62).
When Robert Oppenheimer die, Robert Oppenheimer was 62 years old.
Popular As | Robert Oppenheimer |
Occupation | Physicist |
Age | 62 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
Born | April 22, 1904 (New York City, NY) |
Birthday | April 22 |
Town/City | New York City, NY |
Nationality | NY |
Robert Oppenheimer’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Robert Oppenheimer was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Led America into the atomic era with his research into nuclear physics and supervision of the Los Alamos laboratories from the very beginning of the Manhattan Project. In 1953, after a military report linked him to Communists in the past, he lost his prestigious position within the U.S. government.
At their height, the Los Alamos laboratories, which he designed, employed over 3,000 people, all engaged into researching the splitting of the atom.
Almost a decade after his reputation was ruined by allegations that he had communist sympathies President John F. Kennedy awarded him the Enrico Fermi Award.
He was born in New York City, his father Julius S. Oppenheimer was a successful textile merchant, and his mother Ella Friedman was a non-observant Jew. He was married to Katherine Puening Harrison from 1940 until his death 1967 and they had two kids named Katherine and Peter Oppenheimer.
After Albert Einstein warned the U.S. government that Germany was working on atomic weapons, he turned his attention to the practical question of how to make those weapons first.