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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.
Miraculously, J. Robert Oppenheimer delivered the device on time. And it worked. And World War II ended just eight days after the atomic vaporization of Hiroshima. Oppenheimer favored the use of atomic weapons against Japan. He was at first a hero.