ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This brief retelling of Oppenheimer's life glosses over topics of great depth, which may be pursued independently in printed form. Much of the information presented here derives from Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner's edited collection, Robert Oppenheimer, letters and recollections; Gregg Herken's Brotherhood of the bomb: The tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller; S.S. Schweber's In the shadow of the bomb: Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the moral responsibility of the scientist; and Peter Goodchild's J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of worlds, among other sources consulted. These and other biographical materials on Oppenheimer are assembled in the Selected Bibliography of the Oppenheimer Literature page of this website. Detailed information about Oppenheimer's trial and the Manhattan Project is available elsewhere on the web on sites listed on the Selected Oppenheimer Internet Links page of this website.

For original material, the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, offered much help, especially the History of Science and Technology Program directed by David Farrell. Many of the images, videos, and documents here have been provided courtesy of the Bancroft Library, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee at Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

This site was developed by Alex Wellerstein for the Office for History of Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. It was originally developed as part of the Oppenheimer Centennial at Berkeley.

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