Physicist

J. Robert Oppenheimer

American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb"

1904 - 1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

His biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2024). J. Robert Oppenheimer is the 4th most popular physicist (up from 15th in 2024), the 6th most popular biography from United States (up from 45th in 2019) and the most popular American Physicist.

J. Robert Oppenheimer is most famous for being the director of the Manhattan Project, which was a project to develop the first atomic bomb.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks #6 among 23,232 people in Pantheon born in United States, inside the top 1% of that group.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer climbed 345 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #429 to #84.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer's Wikipedia page drew 7.4M views over the past year, 62× the average among Physicists.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 4 out of 863. Before him are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Marie Curie. After him are Stephen Hawking, Wilhelm Röntgen, Michael Faraday, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, and Albert A. Michelson.

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HPI: 99.44
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HPI: 94.83
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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HPI: 90.85
Rank: 4
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HPI: 88.36
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HPI: 87.15
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HPI: 85.34
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HPI: 84.49
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 1. After him are Salvador Dalí, Deng Xiaoping, Pablo Neruda, Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Seuss, Umberto II of Italy, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Cary Grant, Jean Gabin, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and B. F. Skinner. Among people deceased in 1967, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 2. Before him is Che Guevara. After him are Puyi, Konrad Adenauer, René Magritte, Vivien Leigh, John Nance Garner, Albert Lutuli, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Ed White, Spencer Tracy, and Mohammad Mosaddegh.

Others Born in 1904

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J. Robert Oppenheimer
PHYSICIST
1904 - 1967
HPI: 90.85
Rank: 1
Salvador Dalí
PAINTER
1904 - 1989
HPI: 89.93
Rank: 2
Deng Xiaoping
POLITICIAN
1904 - 1997
HPI: 82.61
Rank: 3
Pablo Neruda
WRITER
1904 - 1973
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 4
Reinhard Heydrich
POLITICIAN
1904 - 1942
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 5
Dr. Seuss
WRITER
1904 - 1991
HPI: 79.94
Rank: 6
Umberto II of Italy
POLITICIAN
1904 - 1983
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 7
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
NOBLEMAN
1904 - 1918
HPI: 76.39
Rank: 8
Cary Grant
ACTOR
1904 - 1986
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 9
Jean Gabin
ACTOR
1904 - 1976
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 10
Wendell Meredith Stanley
CHEMIST
1904 - 1971
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 11
B. F. Skinner
PSYCHOLOGIST
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 12