With Christopher Nolan’s new film, “Oppenheimer,” opening on Friday, a new light is being cast on the famous physicist’s life. Part of that life was lived at Pasadena’…
J. Robert Oppenheimer ultimately came to be known as “the father of the atomic bomb” – a weapon that changed the course of history, from its nascent tests in the vast plains of New Mexico to its horrific blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In those war years, Oppenheimer had to convince the best and brightest physicists in the country to join a top-secret mission he was prohibited from fully explaining as he recruited top minds to a distant New Mexico town that would become the laboratory for a weapon for the bomb. That project — the Manhattan Project — and the trajectory of his life after the war, makes Oppenheimer “the most important person who ever lived in human history,” Nolan recently told the New York Times.
Linus Pauling’s 1954, Nobel Prizes would be based on the work he did there on the nature of chemical bonding and the structure of the atomic nucleus. In 1962, he would also receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work against above ground nuclear testing. And so, in the spirit of what is building up as an epic film release on a life so consequential, here is a primer on Pasadena’s ties to J. Robert Oppenheimer .The son of German immigrants, the New York-born Oppenheimer is known as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb” for his role in making the world’s first atomic bomb.He spoke out publicly about the dangers of atomic warfare shortly after the war.
It was at a 1939 garden party at Caltech that Oppenheimer met his future wife Kitty, played by Emily Blunt in the movie. Their son Peter was born in Pasadena in 1941.Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Oppenheimer usually spent one term each year on the Caltech campus, becoming a full professor in 1938.
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