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- In the 1940s, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer led a team to develop the world's first atomic bomb.
- His work garnered him the title "father of the atomic bomb," but he wasn't an obvious choice for its leader.
- He was a complicated, intelligent man known for being condescending, volatile, and impractical.
J. Robert Oppenheimer was the architect behind the atomic bomb.
He spent decades working as a physics lecturer and made several notable scientific discoveries, including forecasting black holes thirty years before it became a common theory.
He was called "Oppie" by colleagues and friends. He was a 6-foot-tall skinny man with a stoop. He could be condescending, volatile, and impractical.