Robert Oppenheimer is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century's most famous physicist. He will forever be the "father of the atomic bomb" after the first nuclear weapon was successfully tested on July 16, 1945 in the New Mexican desert. The event brought to his mind words from a Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds". Loading YouTube content Who was Robert Oppenheimer? Born in 1904 in an affluent New York family, Oppenheimer graduated from Harvard majoring in chemistry in 1925. Two years later, he completed his PhD in physics at one of...