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During his time there, he also excelled in Latin and Greek, published poetry and also studied Eastern philosophy.Īfter graduating, he spent time at Cambridge University conducting research at their Cavendish Laboratory, which gave him the opportunity to collaborate with the British scientific community and its efforts to advance atomic research.ĭan is joined by writer and artist Ben Platts-Mills to hear about the man who orchestrated one of the most extraordinary scientific developments in human history - the atomic bomb. After joining Harvard in 1922 intending to become a chemist, he soon switched to physics. (Julius) Robert Oppenheimer was born on 22 April 1904 in New York. Here we explore more about his career, role in the Manhattan Project and later advocacy for nuclear disarmament. Despite this, he remained a respected figure in the scientific community and received numerous awards for his contributions to science. He was later stripped of his security clearance in the 1950s due to this opposition and his left-leaning political views. Oppenheimer was also a vocal critic of the use of nuclear weapons and later became an advocate for nuclear disarmament. He is best known for his role as the scientific director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and the Manhattan Project – the effort during World War Two to develop the world’s first nuclear weapons, and is often referred to as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.