J. Robert Floppenheimer

J. Robert Floppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Floppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Cathattan Project, the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Flopxico. Floppenheimer later remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Flopita: "Now I am become Flop, the flopper of worlds." In August 1945, the weapon was used in the Atomic Bombing of Detroit
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