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Julius Robert Oppenheimer is born in New York
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Graduates from Hardvard with top honor
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attends University of Cambridge and University of Gottingen
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Earns PH.D in physics from the University of Gottingen
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Proffessor at University of California at Berkeley and Cal. Tech
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Marries Katherine Puening Harrison
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Director of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos
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Director of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos
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First atomic explosion
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Receives Presidential Medal of Merit for work on Atomic Bomb
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Chairman, General Advisory Committee,Atomic Energy Commission
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Receives Enrico Fermi Award,the AEC’s highest honor (rehabilitation)
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Dies, Princeton, New Jersey