In June 1942, Robert Oppenheimer was appointed its director. Preliminary research was being done at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but Oppenheimer set ...

Overseeing the project was US Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. You might recognize Oppenheimer's name from Christopher Nolan's 2023 blockbuster movie.

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and therefore responsible for the research ...