J. Robert Oppenheimer (HM6)

J. Robert Oppenheimer (* April 22th, 1904 in City) is a US-American theoretical Physicist of German-Jewish descent.
In 1926, he became a Ph.D. student at the University of , then the worldwide leading center of nuclear physics. Here, young Oppenheimer was able to exchange ideas with the great nuclear scientists of their time, like , Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, , Paul Dirac, and . In 1927, Oppenheimer got his doctorate under Max Born. Afterwards, he got a job as an Assistant professor in Berkeley, California.
In 1930, he essentially predicted the Existence of the Positron, an Antimatter particle - two years later, it was discovered. In 1938/39, he predicted the Existence of White Dwarfs, Neutron stars, and Black Holes in Astrophysics.
In 1939, he began a relationship with Katherine ("Kitty") Puening, after having parted ways with Jean Tatlock.
In 1933, he learned Sanskrit and afterwards read the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishades in the Original.
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