J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist. He was director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II and is often called the "father of the atomic bomb".

22 April 1904

Born on the same birth day (22 April): B. R. Chopra • Bhama Srinivasan • Christopher Ball (linguist) • Harald Bohr • Jack Nitzsche • John Buchanan (Canadian politician) • John Pritchard (bishop) • Mary Prior • Solomon Caesar Malan

Born in the same month (April 1904): Arshile Gorky • Bruce Cabot • Cecil Day-Lewis • Chancellor of Germany • Clifford Bricker • David Robinson (philanthropist) • Duncan Renaldo • Erwin Komenda • Fifi D'Orsay • Hirsch Jacobs • Jean Hélion • K. L. Saigal • Nikos Zachariadis • Odilo Globocnik • Pigmeat Markham • Richard Eberhart • Roland Wilson (economist) • Xenophon Zolotas