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Without this person the atomic bomb would of never been invented the war with Japan would of lasted longer He was known as the father of the atomic bomb When the United States found out that Nazi Germany was researching about making a nuclear weapon he was put in charge of making the atomic bomb before the Germans did Julius Robert Oppenheimer was the man behind all of this Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born in April 22 1904 in New York New York to german jewish parents immigrants from Germany His father Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer was a wealthy textile importer and his mother Ella Friedman was an artist Julius R Oppenheimer began studying in 1911 in a private school called Ethical Culture School based on the behavior of humans At a young age 10 years old Oppenheimer started studying physics and chemistry Later he went on to Harvard in 1922 and graduated from Harvard University in 1925 Oppenheimer went to Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University to study physics and continued his studies in Germany at the University of Gottingen where he got his PhD in theoretical physics After finishing his studies he became a professor at the University of California Berkeley Also gave him a chance to teach at the California Institute of Pasadena for six weeks a year
