
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Born: 1904-04-22
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography

Atomic People
2024

Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
2015

Oppenheimer: The Real Story
2023

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
2023

Oppenheimer After Trinity
2023

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
2019

The Day After Trinity
1981

Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945
1970

Crusade in Europe
1949

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995

Hiroshima
2005

Awake: The Life of Yogananda
2014

The Decision to Drop the Bomb
1965

A Compassionate Spy
2022

Le Syndrome du Titanic
2009

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008

Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We?
2024