answer Identify the scientist who became the director of the Manhattan Project, which created the atomic bomb
During World War II, American physicists and engineers began a race against Nazi Germany to create the first atomic bomb. This secret four-year endeavor (1942-1945) was code-named âthe Manhattan Project,â named for one of the initial sites of research, Columbia University in Manhattan, New York.n 1942, Manhattan Project scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer suggested the remote area of Los Alamos in New Mexico. General Groves approved the site and construction began at the end of 1942. Oppenheimer became the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory (known as âProject Yâ).