J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America from Germany. By the age of 9, he had read literature and philosophy in ...

During World War II, as Germany, Russia, and the US raced to build nuclear weapons, America launched the Manhattan Project.

Robert Oppenheimer as chairman of the Atomic Energy ... Strauss was born in 1896 in West Virginia to Jewish emigrant parents, according to reporting from Esquire. Despite his dreams of studying ...

“The dog bites the cat, and the cat bites the rat.” Oppenheimer, who was Jewish, had complicated issues around his identity in the United States. He struggled with being treated like an outsider.

Jewish filmmaker Josh Oppenheimer was just announced as one of 21 new MacArthur fellows this year. The award is often referred to as the “Genius Grant.” Oppenheimer, 39, received the ...