J. Robert Oppenheimer, born Julius Robert Oppenheimer on April 22, 1904, was an American theoretical physicist and one of the key figures in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. He is often refer red to as the " father of the atomic bomb." Oppenheimer was born in New York City and grew up in a family of German-Jewish immigrants . He showed an early interest in science and attended Harvard University, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in chemistry. He then pursued graduate studies in physics at the University of Göttingen in Germany, where he worked with prominent physicists like Max Born and Werner Heisenberg. In the 1930s , Oppenheimer returned to the United States and held academic positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory , becoming one of the leading theoretical physicists of his time. When World War
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