Robert Oppenheimer
Amerikaanse teoretiese fisikus
Julius Robert Oppenheimer (22 April 1904 – 18 Februarie 1967) was 'n Amerikaanse teoretiese fisikus van Joodse afkoms en professor in fisika aan die Universiteit van Kalifornië, Berkeley.
J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
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 J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1944 | |
| Gebore | Julius Robert Oppenheimer 22 April 1904 |
| Sterf | 18 Februarie 1967 (op 62) |
| Nasionaliteit |  Verenigde State |
| Bekend vir | Manhattan-projek |
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Die eerste atoombom is ontplof op 16 Julie 16 1945 in New Mexico; Oppenheimer het later opgemerk dat hy gedink het aan woorde uit die Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."[1]
BibliografieWysig
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1954). Science and the Common Understanding. New York: Simon and Schuster. OCLC 34304713.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1955). The Open Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster. OCLC 297109.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1964). The Flying Trapeze: Three Crises for Physicists. London: Oxford University Press. OCLC 592102.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Rabi, I.I (1969). Oppenheimer. New York: Scribner. OCLC 2729. (posthumous)
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Smith, Alice Kimball; Weiner, Charles (1980). Robert Oppenheimer, Letters and Recollections. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-77605-0. OCLC 5946652. (nadood)
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Metropolis, N.; Rota, Gian-Carlo; Sharp, D. H. (1984). Uncommon Sense. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Birkhäuser Boston. ISBN 978-0-8176-3165-9. OCLC 10458715. (nadood)
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1989). Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08547-0. OCLC 19981106. (nadood)
VerwysingsWysig
- ↑ Hijiya, James A. (Junie 2000). “The Gita of Robert Oppenheimer”. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 144 (2). Besoek op Desember 23, 2013.