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  Frank Oppenheimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 ;– February 3, 1985) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, was a target of McCarthyism, and was later the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Frank and Jackie eventually sold one of the Van Gogh paintings he had inherited from his father, and with the money bought land in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and started life over again as a cattle farmer.
In 1965, Frank was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the history of physics and conduct bubble chamber research at University College, London, where he was exposed to European science museums for the first time.
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 Postwar Activities - Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimers brother, Frank Oppenheimer, was forced to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he admitted that he had been a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s, but he refused to name other members.
Frank was subsequently fired from his university position, could not find work in physics, and became instead a cattle rancher in Colorado., testified against Oppenheimer at his security hearing in 1954.
Oppenheimer refused, and requested a hearing to assess his loyalty, and in the meantime his security hearing was suspended.
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 Oppenheimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrés Oppenheimer, an Argentinian author and journalist known for his analysis of Latin American politics.
Oppenheimer (band), an indie-pop electronica duo heralding from Belfast, made up of musicians Shaun Robinson and Rocky O'Reilly.
Oppenheimer and Co., an investment bank in Toronto, Ontario and a division of Oppenheimer Holdings
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 Frank Theatre
Frank Theatre's premiere of Carson Kreitzer's The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a winding, poetic meditation on passion, morality, science, betrayal, and lots of other decidedly un-atomic concepts.
Oppenheimer's communist associations and objections to the development of the hydrogen bomb made him scholar non grata in the fllisting '50s, and we see him constantly questioning the morality of his actions.
Gwendolyn Schwinke is less satisfactory as Oppenheimer's former lover, partly because of her phlegmatic performance and partly because Kreitzer hasn't provided sufficient reason for the character to be on stage in the first place.
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 Robert Oppenheimer
Thus it was Oppenheimer who, based on his past sojourns there, settled on New Mexico, scouting out and eventually selecting the Los Alamos Ranch School as the new base of operations.
Despite the over-awing success of the project, Oppenheimer's initial jubilation faded to depression as reports began trickling in as to the numbers of the dead and maimed.
During hearings Oppenheimer’s earlier leftist/Communist sympathies were trotted out and Los Alamos alum Edward Teller insinuated that Oppenheimer’s opposition to research on the more powerful H-bomb was so "confusing" (given his work on the A bomb) that his loyalties could not be trusted.
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 Exploratorium: Museum History
Frank Oppenheimer was born in 1912 in New York City.
Blackballed by McCarthy-era paranoia, Frank was unable to continue his physics research, and spent the next ten years as a cattle rancher in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
Frank proposed to house his new museum in the vacant Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina district of San Francisco.
www.exploratorium.edu /about/frank.html   (401 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : United States Atomic Energy Commission. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer stated in his personnel security questionnaire, which he executed on April 28, 1942, for the purpose of obtaining a clearance for work on the atomic program, that he had joined the "American Committee for Democratic Intellectual Freedom" in 1937 and was still a member on the date the PSQ was executed.
Oppenheimer testified that she was married to Joseph Dallet from 1934 until he was killed in Spain, fighting for the Spanish Republican Army in 1937.
Oppenheimer testified that the problem which was bothering Chevalier and his wife was that Chevalier was employed as a translator for UNESCO, and he understood that if he continued this work as an American citizen, he would have to be cleared after investigation, and he was doubtful as to whether he would be cleared.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/abomb/opp01.htm   (12879 words)

  
 PREVIEW: Father of the A-bomb
Oppenheimer recovered, transferred to the University of Göttingen in Germany, and quickly became a star in the new and burgeoning field of quantum mechanics.
Oppenheimer himself became an active member of the CP-dominated teachers' union, a signer of innumerable Communist petitions, and a generous contributor to Communist causes, funneled through Isaac "Pop" Folkoff, a party functionary with ties to Soviet intelligence.
By 1953, Oppenheimer's role on the AEC was much diminished, but Strauss, who had suffered a variety of insults and public humiliations from the arrogant Oppenheimer in the past, was determined to extract his revenge.
www.weeklystandard.com /Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=5661&R=C561F2B5   (1772 words)

  
 J. Robert Oppenheimer Centennial - Exhibit
It is sometimes said that one's greatest strengths can also be one's greatest weaknesses, and in Oppenheimer's life this manifested itself quite literally: the personableness and diverse interests which allowed him to expertly run Los Alamos were part of the same character which led to the revocation of his security clearance.
It is indicative of the changing of hands of the bomb, moving from the responsibility of intellectual eclectics like Oppenheimer into the protocols of military rank and policy.
Oppenheimer represents many things, but it is the common humanity present in his science, his teaching, his successes, and his failures which makes him a complex and rich historical character.
ohst.berkeley.edu /oppenheimer/exhibit   (423 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy.
Oppenheimer's wife, Kitty, mother of these small children, did not visit or call Rochester; she limited her care and time to Robert and bottle on bottle of whiskey.
Oppenheimer's wartime affair with Ruth Tolman, his illicit evening with Jean Talock while married to Kitty, his contributions of money to communist causes, and his disinclination to bring his talent to bear in developing the hydrogen bomb despite Stalin's atomic capability, condemned Oppenheimer in Strauss' mind.
Oppenheimer, in several public statements, contended the atomic bomb was well suited for military targets, but the hydrogen bomb could only be used effectively against larger civilian targets: use of the hydrogen bomb, Oppenheimer contended, would be an act of genocide.
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 1953: Oppenheimer's fall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
By his 25th birthday, Oppenheimer was a professor of physics at Caltech and a leading authority on quantum theory.
Oppenheimer joined a variety of Communist front groups in California, but he came to detest Communist dogma as rigid and anti-individual.
Oppenheimer, trembling nervously in an underground bunker, felt the rumble of the mightiest weapon ever devised by man, a blast with the power of' 20,000 tons of TNT.
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 SparkNotes: J. Robert Oppenheimer: Important Terms, People, and Events
Oppenheimer and Chevalier were close friends during Oppenheimer's time at Berkeley, a relationship that would cause great trouble for him later in life.
Frank was also a physicist, although he was never as well known or as successful as his famous older brother.
Oppenheimer fell in love with her in the late 1930s and became heavily involved with her radical friends and organizations.
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 SparkNotes: J. Robert Oppenheimer: Oppenheimer the Radical
Oppenheimer had German roots, and it was clear to him that Hitler was no friend of the German Jews.
Soon after meeting Oppenheimer, she got a divorce, and the two were married on November 1, 1940.
In later years, Oppenheimer dismissed his flirtation with communism as just that–a boyish flirtation attributed to the foolishness of youth, a necessary stage in growing up, one which he passed through and left behind forever by the beginning of World War II.
www.sparknotes.com /biography/oppenheimer/section4.rhtml   (748 words)

  
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"Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project" on June 26 is a daylong series of talks and presentations about the man who led the nation's development of the atomic bomb working out of a secret installation on the Pajarito Plateau.
Curated by members of the Oppenheimer Committee, the display includes more than 50 photos gathered from the collections of the Robert and Frank Oppenheimer families, the archives of Berkeley's Bancroft library, Harvard, Princeton, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Laboratory.
Preceding the symposium on June 25 is the dedication of the Oppenheimer House downtown where Oppenheimer and his family lived - the house was recently acquired by the Los Alamos Historical Society - and a dinner at Fuller Lodge.
www.lanl.gov /orgs/pa/newsbulletin/2004/06/10/includes/text07.inc   (409 words)

  
 American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, TN - Exhibits
Oppenheimer is credited with making the technical decisions regarding the design and construction of both Fat Man and Little Boy, the first atomic weapons, ending World War II.
Oppenheimer was described as a precocious boy, who delighted in collecting butterflies and stamps, reading poetry and experimenting with a microscope, more than playing with children.
Oppenheimer used his profound knowledge and inspiring leadership on the project that led to the successful nuclear device tested at the Trinity site in the desert of New Mexico and the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
www.amse.org /exhibits/050401-Oppenheimer.html   (768 words)

  
 Exploratorium to honor 'Pief' Panofsky Untitled Web Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
So when his friend Frank Oppenheimer came to his office in the mid-1960s with an idea for a hands-on science museum, Panofsky did what he could to help.
Oppenheimer's teaching experience convinced him that hands-on exploration was the best way to learn science, and he returned to California to start a museum based on this idea.
Oppenheimer died in 1985, but his dream lives on, and its success is tangible in more than 650 science, art and human perception exhibits.
www.stanford.edu /dept/news/report/news/2003/april30/panofskyex-430.html   (420 words)

  
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Oppenheimer later testified that Addis had persuaded him to make donations for the Spanish Loyalists to Folkoff and the Party directly, rather than to relief organizations, on the grounds that money given to the Party would go immediately to the fighting front.
Oppenheimer told the FBI in 1946 that Weinberg “has an extremely nervous temperament and for this reason, he disapproved his employment at Los Alamos.” San Francisco field report, Sept. 19, 1946, vol.
Oppenheimer received the news at home, where he was sleeping late after attending a benefit for Spanish civil war veterans the night before. At the Rad Lab that evening, the first visible traces of shiny uranium metal began accumulating in the spectrograph’s collectors.
www.brotherhoodofthebomb.com /bhbmedia/notes_chap3.doc   (5115 words)

  
 TIME.com: The Storm Breaks -- Apr. 19, 1954 -- Page 1
Oppenheimer's move seemed to be an answer to Joe McCarthy, who last week asked if "traitors to our Government" had not caused an 18-month delay in U.S. development of the H-bomb.
It was further reported that during the period of her association with Joseph Dallet, your wife became a member of the Communist Party...
It was reported that your brother, Frank F. Oppenheimer, became a member of the Communist Party in 1936.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,860526,00.html   (581 words)

  
 Copenhagen . The Moral Dilemma of The Bomb | PBS
Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist, to be the project's scientific director.
Two scientists working at Los Alamos and present at the Trinity explosion were Frank Oppenheimer -- brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer -- and Robert Wilson.
Frank Oppenheimer was a Berkeley physics Ph.D. trouble shooting the Trinity test for his brother, and Wilson was group leader of the cyclotron program.
www.pbs.org /hollywoodpresents/copenhagen/story/bomb.html   (378 words)

  
 "Oppenheimer" (1980) (mini)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
User Comments: Oppenheimer miniseries was on of the best I have ever seen.
Oppenheimer miniseries was on of the best I have ever seen.
I can't remember the series, I believe it may have been "American Masters", but it was broadcast on PBS around 1980.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0078037   (315 words)

  
 NPR : Oppenheimer: American Prometheus
And yet, it was the irony of Robert Oppenheimer's odyssey that a life devoted to social justice, rationality and science would become a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud.
Julius' father, Benjamin Pinhas Oppenheimer, was an untutored peasant and grain trader who had been raised in a hovel in "an almost medieval German village," Robert later reported.
Four years after Robert's birth, Ella bore another son, Lewis Frank Oppenheimer, but the infant soon died, a victim of stenosis of the pylorus, a congenital obstruction of the opening from the stomach to the small intestine.
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 dOc DVD Review: The Day After Trinity (1980) - Printable
The participants describe a venture and a leader (i.e., Oppenheimer) so caught up in the task at hand that only after the fact did the consequences of their work come to the fore.
Oppenheimer certainly didn't—as one of his colleagues quotes him here: "The physicists have known sin, and this is a knowledge they cannot lose." It's hard to imagine the connection for these men between their laboratory work, their esprit de corps in New Mexico, and the 100,000 dead in and around Hiroshima.
For better or worse, we all live with the legacy of Oppenheimer, and this documentary is a sharp look at the man and his accomplishments from some of those who knew him best.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=3533   (725 words)

  
 Oppenheimer Frank 1912 1985 Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1973 February 9 and May 21. AIP ...
Oppenheimer Frank 1912 1985 Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1973 February 9 and May 21.
Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1973 February 9 and May 21.
Oral History Interview may be read and quoted by any researcher with an access application on file, and excerpts may be copied.
www.aip.org /history/catalog/icos/4807.html   (132 words)

  
 Oppenheimer Frank 1912 1985 Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1984 November 16. AIP International Catalog ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Oppenheimer Frank 1912 1985 Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1984 November 16.
Delsasso, Lewis A. Houston, W. Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985.
His involvement, along with Jackie Oppenheimer, in the Young Communist League of Pasadena.
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 Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception founded in 1969 by physicist Frank Oppenheimer.
The Exploratorium was conceived by physicist Frank Oppenheimer (1912-1985).
Though Frank Oppenheimer died in 1985, his spirit lives on in the Exploratorium's exhibits, which are intriguing, thoughtful, playful, sometimes strange, and sometimes beautiful.
www.thevolunteercenter2.net /org/1266690.html   (1829 words)

  
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That February, in a speech at the University of Denver, Oppenheimer described Soviet Communism as “deeply abhorrent.” The following month, a speech that Oppenheimer wrote in response to the Russians’ latest attack on the Baruch plan reportedly had to be toned down before it could be delivered by the U.S. representative to the UN.
Long-range objectives panel: Oppenheimer to Parsons, June 18, 1948, and Carpenter to Greenewalt, June 9, 1948, file 184, RG 330, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), National Archives; Nichols, 264.
However, in the same April 1948 document, Oppenheimer argued that “the very greatest attention must be given to obtaining reliable information about the state of affairs within the Soviet Union bearing on its military potential.” ITMOJRO, 47.
www.brotherhoodofthebomb.com /bhbmedia/notes_chap10.doc   (4381 words)

  
 OPTON/OPPENHEIMER Family Tree
To the right, is an image of the Stammbaum OPPENHEIMER family tree which begins with Zacharias OPPENHEIMER in 1827 and goes up to 1885.
Edward OPPENHEIMER remarried (5 May 1867) Matilde (Mary) LEVINTAS (b.
Frank NAUMBERG had a son who was adopted during the lifetime of his first wife.
www.loebtree.com /opton.html   (1074 words)

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