https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject Dr. Hobbs due 10/28 en-us 2016-10-17 22:20:12 UTC 2025-05-01 21:29:39 UTC hello@padlet.com suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131321651 J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904, in New York City, to Jewish immigrants, Ella Friedman and Julius Oppenheimer. After graduating from Harvard University, Oppenheimer went to England and attended at the University of Cambridge, where he began his atomic research at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1925. ]]> 2016-10-17 22:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131321651 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131321828 Oppenheimer agreed with Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard that the Nazis could develop a nuclear weapon. Because of the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Oppenheimer was selected to administer a laboratory to carry out the Manhattan Project, a U.S. Army experiment aimed at harnessing atomic energy for military purposes. He led the scientific end of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, beginning in 1942.]]> 2016-10-17 22:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131321828 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131322087 Oppenhiemers mission was to explore a newly documented fission process involving uranium-235, with which he hoped to make a nuclear bomb before Adolf Hitler could. The project was initially given $6,000 by the U.S. government, but by the time the work culminated in 1945, the amount had grown to $2 billion. That year marked the first test of the bomb, and with its success, two more bombs were deployed in the following month: one in Nagasaki, Japan, and the other in Hiroshima. These actions essentially ended WWII.]]> 2016-10-17 22:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131322087 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131322353 I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
"This is what Oppenheimer said when he heard about the destruction of the bomb(s)"

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

]]> 2016-10-17 22:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131322353 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131323089 2016-10-17 22:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131323089 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131323439 2016-10-17 22:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131323439 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131323744 Oppenheimer went on to become chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, which, in October 1949, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb. This shocking opposition led to accusations that Oppenheimer was a Communist supporter. Because of that, in 1953, he was suspended from secret nuclear research, stripped of his security clearance by the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy announced Oppenheimer would receive the Enrico Fermi Award. After Kennedy's assassination, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented the award to him in December of that year. Robert Oppenheimer continued to support international control of atomic energy in his later years. He died of throat cancer on February 18, 1967, in Princeton, New Jersey.

]]> 2016-10-17 22:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131323744 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131323974 After Robert Oppenheimer passed away, he became known as "the Father of the Atomic Bomb" because of his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb. His contributions effect us to this day. He helped us understand the powers of the atom, which powers some of our world today. The use of nuclear technology to create power in nuclear power plants effect us because it powers part of our world.]]> 2016-10-17 22:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/131323974 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/132877843 After the Manhattan Project was successful, and Robert regretted his actions, he was banned from secret nuclear research. Earlier, he was a communist supporter. Believing that he was leaking information to the Soviets, the U.S. government banned him. He also had a hard time after the bomb dropped and he heard about how many people had died because of the bomb. He felt that he caused the deaths, and he felt extremely terrible (1st quote). ]]> 2016-10-25 00:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/132877843 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/132880070 2016-10-25 00:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/132880070 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/132880719 This is where the Manhattan Project was based]]> 2016-10-25 00:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/132880719 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/133694230 2016-10-27 16:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/133694230 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/133785530 2016-10-27 23:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/133785530 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/133786832 Robert Oppenhiemer's contributions to today seem small, but are actually large. He ended World War 2, one of the bloodiest wars ever and if it kept on going, the casualties would pile up. The Japanese officers said that even if the Americans killed off most of the Japanese army, they would not surrender, meaning an even longer war.]]> 2016-10-27 23:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/133786832 suphutt24 https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/133787333 2016-10-27 23:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/suphutt24/oppenheimerproject/wish/133787333