page_title: Katherine Oppenheimer
hierarchical_section_title: Katherine Oppenheimer
caption_attribution_description: Katherine Oppenheimer Los Alamos wartime security badge.
context_page_description: Katherine "Kitty" Vissering Oppenheimer was a German-American biologist, botanist, and a member of the Communist Party of America. She is best known as the wife of activist Joe Dallet, and then of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
context_section_description: Katherine "Kitty" Vissering Oppenheimer (née Puening; August 8, 1910 – October 27, 1972) was a German-American biologist, botanist, and a member of the Communist Party of America. She is best known as the wife of activist Joe Dallet, and then of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
caption: Wartime Los Alamos identification badge
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