Katherine Oppenheimer

Katherine Vissering "Kitty" Oppenheimer ( Puening; August 8, 1910 – October 27, 1972) was a German American biologist and botanist. She was a member of the Communist Party of America until leaving in the 1930s. She was known for being married to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

Oppenheimer died on October 27, 1972 while traveling in Panama City, Panama from a pulmonary embolism, aged 62.

She was played by Emily Blunt in Christopher Nolan's 2023 movie Oppenheimer.

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