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Frank Oppenheimer

1912 - 1985

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Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (14 August 1912 – 3 February 1985) was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. A younger brother of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Oppenheimer conducted research on aspects of nuclear physics during the time of the Manhattan Project, and made contributions to uranium enrichment. After the war, Oppenheimer's earlier involvement with the American Communist Party placed him under scrutiny, and he resigned from his physics position at the University of Minnesota. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Oppenheimer has received more than 2,690,672 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Oppenheimer is the 634th most popular physicist (down from 584th in 2019), the 6,756th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,869th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frank Oppenheimer ranks 634 out of 717. Before him are Nicholas Metropolis, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Frederick Seitz, Franz Josef Gerstner, Maurice Goldhaber, and Alfred Ewing. After him are Leo Kadanoff, Ursula Franklin, Barys Kit, Lee Smolin, Paul Peter Ewald, and Carlo Alberto Castigliano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Frank Oppenheimer ranks 265. Before him are Horace W. Babcock, Teuvo Aura, George Mikes, Bill Roberts, Santiago Lovell, and György Sándor. After him are Julián Berrendero, Gordon Parks, Alfred Aston, Jehan Buhan, Eleanor Powell, and Anton Buttigieg. Among people deceased in 1985, Frank Oppenheimer ranks 177. Before him are Jo Jones, Natalio Perinetti, Hilding Rosenberg, Uku Masing, Rudolf Burkert, and Matt Monro. After him are George O'Brien, Sam Spiegel, Carlos Mota Pinto, Božo Broketa, William Stevenson, and Harald Cramér.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Oppenheimer ranks 6,756 out of 18,182. Before him are Tay Garnett (1894), Edmund Szoka (1927), Rosie O'Donnell (1962), James Quinn (1906), Eve Arden (1908), and Utada Hikaru (1983). After him are Tony Carey (1953), Ken Carpenter (1913), Celia Weston (1951), George O'Brien (1899), Alan Tudyk (1971), and Ellsworth Huntington (1876).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Frank Oppenheimer ranks 132. Before him are Harold Brown (1927), Charles Stark Draper (1901), John C. Slater (1900), William Higinbotham (1910), Nicholas Metropolis (1915), and Frederick Seitz (1911). After him are Leo Kadanoff (1937), Lee Smolin (1955), Edward Condon (1902), Leona Woods (1919), Lisa Randall (1962), and Ash Carter (1954).

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