Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Fun Facts:



  1. Because of Robert Oppenheimer close to 300,000 people died from only two of his bombs that were dropped on Japan.

  2. When growing up, his family and he spent their time at a choice of three different homes, on of which being in New Mexico.

  3. Julius Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein worked together during his research with the bombs.


  4. Got a United States Medal for Merit, French legion of honor.

  5. Rob was the youngest human being to be admitted into the New York Mineralogical Society.

  6. In 1930 he presented a cogent symmetry argument later recognized to be tantamount to the positive electron or position.

  7. Rob helped develop Oppenheimer-Philips interpretation of Dieter pm nuclear reactions which eventually led to great insight into the structure of the nucleus.



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