Robert J. Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904, by his mother Ella, and his father Julius. The house in New York that Oppenheimer grew up in was a very luxurious place for the time period. Oppenheimer became “an abnormally repulsively good little boy” as stated by his father. His father was a German immigrant who made his money by importing textiles into New York City.At the age of 5 Oppenheimer went on a trip to visit his family home in Germany, where his grandfather lives. His grandfather Ben gave him a small bag of minerals, which triggered a hobby that was to last for years ”Mineralogy.” Oppenheimer was to spend hours-collecting samples, and cataloguing and polishing them. By the age of 11 he had been elected a member of the New York Mineralogical Club. About a year later he delivered his first paper there. His parents said that there was no doubt that he was clever, and at school a star. Although both his parents were Jewish, they rejected orthodox Jewish society and culture. They sent Robert, and later his brother Frank (who was 8) to the school run by the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The school’s founder was another German immigrant, Felix Adler. He believed that human values did
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