Robert Oppenheimer and members of the Manhattan Project are now up for auction ... The second item listed for auction is a typed letter, written and signed by Oppenheimer, that includes his ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos ... transcripts, letters, diaries, declassified documents and FBI dossiers. Mark Sommerfeld for The ...

The implication that the Nazis could develop extremely powerful weapons prompted President Roosevelt to establish the Manhattan Project in 1941. In June 1942, Robert Oppenheimer was appointed its ...

It presents a new lens in which to consider one of the most well-known events in the US—but Oppenheimer is not the only way to access the memory of this history. Manhattan Project National ...

But Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Groves chose Oppenheimer as the Manhattan Project’s director in 1942 ... Einstein had signed a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, written by physicist ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research ... well as transcripts from congressional hearings and letters among some of the principals offers a unique ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

In reality, Oppenheimer consulted Arthur Compton, who was directing the University of Chicago efforts of the Manhattan Project ... Einstein wrote the letter that convinced President Franklin ...

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and therefore responsible for the research and design of the atomic bomb. He is often known as the “father of the ...