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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.
They were willing participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most controversial studies in the history of social psychology. (Itâs the subject of a new film of the same nameâa drama, not a documentaryâstarring Billy Crudup, of âAlmost Famous,â as the lead investigator, Philip Zimbardo.he Stanford Prison Experiment is cited as evidence of the atavistic impulses that lurk within us all; itâs said to show that, with a little nudge, we could all become tyrants. And yet the lessons of the Stanford Prison Experiment arenât so clear-cut. From the beginning, the study has been haunted by ambiguity.