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Robert Oppenheimer

1904–1967

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) was an American theoretical physicist best known as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons. After the war, he became a prominent advocate for nuclear arms control and served as director of the Institute for Advanced Study. His intellectual breadth spanned physics, philosophy, and Eastern thought, making him a complex figure in 20th-century science and culture.

Physics

Science and the Common Understanding
The Open Mind
Uncommon Sense
Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community
Lectures on Physics (various)
The Bhagavad Gita and the Atomic Age (essay)
Interview with The New Yorker (1948)
Farewell Speech to the Manhattan Project (1945)

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