Robert Oppenheimer Death Cause and Date

Robert Oppenheimer's Death

Born (Birthday) April 22, 1904

Death Date February 18, 1967

Age of Death 62 years

Cause of Death Laryngeal Cancer

Profession Physicist

The physicist Robert Oppenheimer died at the age of 62. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

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.

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.

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“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.” (J. Robert Oppenheimer)

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“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” (J. Robert Oppenheimer)

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“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.” (J. Robert Oppenheimer)

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“The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.” (J. Robert Oppenheimer)

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“My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.” (J. Robert Oppenheimer)

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