Robert Oppenheimer Accomplishments

The Manhattan project would have not been as successful if it was not for people like J. Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer’s knowledge, educations, and contributions were the reason he was the best candidate for the position as the Laboratory director of the Manhattan project. Oppenheimer’s lack of experience with leading or overlooking a huge group of scientists before caused many scientists and even General Groves to doubt the decision of appointing him as the director. However, throughout the project Oppenheimer was able to develop himself as a leader. He started acting as not only the director of the scientific community at Los Alamos, but also as their leader.
Oppenheimer grew up having many interests as a student; he studied mathematics

He received his PhD there at the age of 22. While he was studying there, he published many papers that later contributed to the newly developed quantum theory. The most notable paper he published during that time was the ‘Born-Oppenheimer approximation’, which separates nuclear motion from electronic motion in the mathematical treatment of molecules (Atomicarchive.com, 2017). His interests and studies are the reason he was qualified to fill the role as the director of the project secret weapon lab considering he’ knew everything that was known’ about the relevant physics at that

Condon. Condon, an industrial scientist, would work as Oppenheimer’s number one assistant, His task was established the working rules and the administrative scientific rules in the establishment while Oppenheimer does the scientific work. In April 1943, few months after they started working together, Condon resigned because of concerns about security and compartmentalization. This resulted in Oppenheimer taking both jobs, administration, and scientific work. Oppenheimer was stressed about the job as an administrator because of the complexity, but Robert Beacher advice to Oppenheimer is that ‘he had no