Short biography of robert oppenheimer speeches

ByA. C. Grimes

Julius Robert Oppenheimer "was no Einstein," writes Issues in Science and Technology. Technically, he was Albert Einstein's boss.

In 1947, Oppenheimer became director of the Institute for Advanced Study, where the father of relativity worked as a resident scholar, per the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. While he didn't have Einstein's brain, Oppenheimer must have seemed like a no-brainer for the position after leading the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb — a pursuit inspired by none other than Einstein.

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Before the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer had never occupied a major leadership role, and most of his friends didn't consider him fit to "run a hamburger stand," according to historian Martin Sherwin.

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He could be socially inept and self-destructive and had a history of mental instability. Yet he proved to be a compelling and indispensable leader. Those conflicting images