J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was
an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at
the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his
role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project: the
World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons at the
secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. For this
reason he is remembered as "the father of the atomic bomb". In
reference to the Trinity test in New Mexico, where his Los
Alamos team first tested the bomb, Oppenheimer famously recalled
the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to
burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of
the mighty one." and "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of
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