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J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York City, New York to Julius Oppenheimer (father) and Ella Friedman (mother).
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As his family was part of the Ethical Culture Society, he was enrolled into the Ethical Culture School.
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Oppenheimer graduated high school as valedictorian and top of his class.
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Enrolled into Harvard with a major in Chemistry
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Graduated Harvard and began his graduate work under Nobel Prize Winner J.J Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory
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Studied under Max Born at the University of Göttingen
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Oppenheimer received his doctorate
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Worked with Max Born on the structure of molecules which ended up producing the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
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Oppenheimer received offers to teach at both Caltech and the University of California at Berkeley, to which he accepted both.
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It was around this time period that Oppenheimer wrote papers theorizing the existence of black holes
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Robert's father, Julius Oppenheimer, died and Robert received a lot of wealth.
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Married his wife, Katherine "Kitty" Harrison
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Robert and Kitty had their first child, Peter
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Joined the Manhattan Project as the director of it
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Working on the Manhattan project
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Robert and Kitty had their second child, and first daughter, Toni
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The Trinity test turned out successful
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Hiroshima was bombed with an atomic bomb
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Nagasaki was bombed with an atomic bomb
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Became a Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
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Directed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
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Serving as Chairman for the AEC
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Served as Director for the Institute for Advanced Study
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An Anti-Communist frenzy (Red Scare) started to spread around America
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Oppenheimer's Security Clearance was revoked in a hearing for his past communist affiliations
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Oppenheimer wrote a ton of well-known essays about science, and delivered the Reith Lectures on the BBC
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Established the World Academy of Art and Science along with a few other fellow scientists
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Invited to a Nobel Prize dinner by President Kennedy as a way to make amends for how the U.S government had treated him
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Awarded the Enrico Fermi Award
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Died of throat cancer in Princeton, NJ