atomic bombing of Hiroshima

genius

Japan

university

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

theoretical physicist

innovator in the field of

theoretical physics

physicist

engineer

nuclear physicist

race / ethnicity

Ashkenazi Jews

art collector

cause of death

natural causes

religion

Apostasy in Catholicism

scientific organization

American Philosophical Society

Royal Society

Judaism

Phi Beta Kappa Society

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

National Academy of Sciences

applied physics

is an action that was supposed to target a strictly military institution situated so as to produce the greatest psychological effect against Japan.

One such gear was the Target Committee, under the authority of Manhattan Project director Groves. On May 11,1945, this group of military ordnance specialist and Manhattan Project scientist, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, recommended that the target be a small, strictly military facility, located in a much larger area subject to blast damage. Operating on instructions from General Groves, they proposed that the bomb have 'the greatest psychological effect against Japan' and that its 'initial use' be 'sufficiently spectacular.'

is someone who sees the answer before the question.

is a place where, ideally, no man should escape without knowing how little he knows.

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

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Robert Oppenheimer