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LeConte Hall |
Berkeley |
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| 1904/04/22 |
Born in New York City |
Born |
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Robert Oppenheimer's Birthday |
| 1912/00/00 |
Oppenheimer family moves to 155 Riverside Dr |
Home |
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155 Riverside Dr |
New York City |
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| 1926/03/00 |
During a bicycling trip through Corsica, Robert Oppenheimer reads "La Recherche du Temps Perdu", a book that relieves him from his long battle with depression. |
Reader |
In Search of Lost Time (book) |
Corsica |
France |
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| 1929/08/00 |
Robert Oppenheimer takes a room at the Faculty Club |
Home |
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Faculty Club |
Berkeley |
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| 1943/00/00 |
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Work |
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Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory |
Los Alamos |
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| 1945/07/16 |
World's first detonation of a nuclear weapon |
Work |
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Trinity Site |
White Sands Missile Range |
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Dropping the Atomic Bombs |
| 1947/00/00 |
Theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer becomes the third Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. |
Work |
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Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
Princeton |
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| 1948/00/00 |
In the late 1940s, Robert Oppenheimer reads Henry James' "The Beast in the Jungle". Utterly transfixed by the story, Oppenheimer immediately calls up Herb Marks. "He was very anxious that Herb read it," recalled Marks' widow, Anne Wilson Marks. |
Reader |
The Beast in the Jungle |
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| 1949/09/03 |
A US Air Force reconnaissance plane flying over the North Pacific picks up radioactive particles that had drifted from Central Asia. Analysis by J R Oppenheimer and others determines that the USSR had tested an atomic bomb between August 26 and 29. |
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Northern Pacific |
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Dropping the Atomic Bombs |