<P> Julius Robert Oppenheimer ( April 22 , 1904 -- February 18 , 1967 ) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California , Berkeley . Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the `` father of the atomic bomb '' for their role in the Manhattan Project , the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16 , 1945 , in the Trinity test in New Mexico ; Oppenheimer later remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita : `` Now I am become Death , the destroyer of worlds . '' </P>
<P> Julius Robert Oppenheimer ( April 22 , 1904 -- February 18 , 1967 ) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California , Berkeley . Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the `` father of the atomic bomb '' for their role in the Manhattan Project , the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16 , 1945 , in the Trinity test in New Mexico ; Oppenheimer later remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita : `` Now I am become Death , the destroyer of worlds . '' </P>
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16 , 1945 , in the Trinity test in New Mexico ; Oppenheimer later remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita : `` Now I am become Death , the destroyer of worlds . ''
Julius Robert Oppenheimer The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16 , 1945 , in the Trinity test in New Mexico ; Oppenheimer later remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita : `` Now I am become Death , the destroyer of worlds . ''