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Noted as director of the Los Alamos laboratory during the development of the atomic bomb. (1943-45). Director of the institute for advanced study Princeton (1947-66) Biography J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 22, 1904. His father was a German immigrant who had made his fortune importing textiles, and his mother was an American-born painter who had studied in Paris.
American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the scientific research of the Manhattan Project. Born out of a small research programme in 1939, the Manhattan Project's roots lay in the United Statesâ fears that, since the 1930s, Nazi Germany had been trying to develop nuclear weapons.