Biography Of Julius Robert Oppenheimer, An Artist And...

Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born April 22, 1904 to Ella Friedman, an artist and Julius Oppenheimer, a wealthy German textile merchant in New York City, New York. As a child Robert was interested in geology and was said to have even contacted locally famous geologist to discuss the rock formations he observed in Central Park. At the age of 17 Oppenheimer began attending Harvard, a prestigious and well known private University. He graduated Harvard with a major in Chemistry in May of 1925. Later that year he enrolled at Cambridge University in England to study physics thus beginning his atomic research in the Cavendish Laboratory under J.J. Thomson. Then at the age of 22 he was invited to team up with Max Born at Gottingen University in Germany. There he developed the Born-Oppenheimer Method. This method was an important addition to the Quantum Molecular Theory. Quantum theory is the origin of modern physics that explains the behavior and nature of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic plane. He left Gottingen in 1927 with his PhD and a mark in the world of Quantum theory and Theoretical physics. A year later Robert began as an associate professor at Berkley while having a joint appointment at the California Institute of Technology, commuting between the two for the next 13 years. While at Berkley Oppenheimer was the first to write papers of the astronomical examination of collapsed stars, a phenomenon we know now as black holes 30 years before anyone else. He alsoShow MoreRelatedLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 PagesNorman Swartz, Simon Fraser University v Acknowledgments For the 1993 edition: The following friends and colleagues deserve thanks for their help and encouragement with this project: Clifford Anderson, Hellan Roth Dowden, Louise Dowden, Robert Foreman, Richard Gould, Kenneth King, Marjorie Lee, Elizabeth Perry, Heidi Wackerli, Perry Weddle, Tiffany Whetstone, and the following reviewers: David Adams, California State Polytechnic University; Stanley Baronett, Jr., University of Nevada-Las