Theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer delivers a lecture titled "Thoughts on Science and Culture" in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 27, 1962. Despite inventing the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Col. Kenneth D. Nichols first met Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer in July 1942 at Dr. A.H. Compton’s Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of ...

A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers. “The tension that ...

World’s first atomic bomb: J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America from Germany. By the age of 9, he had read ...

WASHINGTON — A former top Energy Department official — who helped posthumously restore the security clearance of atomic bomb architect J. Robert Oppenheimer — was forced out of his job in a ...

Most people were silent." Los Alamos National Laboratory The top-secret laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, opened in April 1943 with J. Robert Oppenheimer as its scientific director.

The historical drama was directed by Christopher Nolan and based on the biography American Prometheus, portraying the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist behind the ...

Col. Kenneth D. Nichols first met Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer in July 1942 at Dr. A.H. Compton’s Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago (“Met Lab”). During and after the ...

Robert J. Lancelotta Sr., a Howard County real estate developer who created the Terra Maria community near Ellicott City, died of cancer April 16 at his Ocean City home. He was 81 and had lived in ...

Robert is survived by his son, Robert J. Konza; daughter-in-law, Shelby Konza; and former wife, Joyce L. Konza. He was preceded in death by his parents, Francis and Josephine Konza; and his ...