J. Robert Oppenheimer

Personal Info

Birthday

April 22, 1904

Day of Death

1967-02-18

(62 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

Роберт Оппенгеймер

Julius Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Biography

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project – the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer was among those who observed the Trinity test in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945.

Known For

Filmography

2024
Atomic People
as Self (archive footage)
Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We?
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Oppenheimer: The Real Story
as Self (archive footage)
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
as Self (archive footage)
Oppenheimer After Trinity
as Self (archive footage)
2022
A Compassionate Spy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
Bellum - The Daemon of War
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Le syndrome du Titanic
as Self (archive sound)
2008
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
as Self (archive footage)
2000
The Moment in Time: The Manhattan Project
as Self (archive footage)
1995
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
as Self (archive footage)
1982
Los Alamos: The Beginning
as Self (archive footage)
1981
The Day After Trinity
as Self (archive footage)
1970
Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
1965
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
as Self
1945
Hugh Bradner Films (Los Alamos)
as self