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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Title: J. Robert Oppenheimer
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 559 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
1904 – 1967
Maggie Richards
Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.
His early education was at the Ethical Culture School in New York. He took math and science classes, but also enthusiastically studied Greek, Latin, French, and German. He had a feel for languages and often learned one quickly just to read …showed first 75 words of 559 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 559 total…who were communists, mostly people involved in the antifascist movement of the thirties. This loss of security clearance ended Oppenheimer's influence on science policy. He held the academic post of director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, and in the last years of his life, he thought and wrote much about the problems of intellectual ethics and morality. He died of throat cancer in 1967.
"Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful."
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