1904 - 1967
J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist. He was director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II and is often called the "father of the atomic bomb". Born in New York City, Oppenheimer earned a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1925 and a doctorate in physics from the University of Göttingen in Germany in 1927, where he studied under Max Born. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. Robert Oppenheimer has received more than 51,681,262 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). J. Robert Oppenheimer is the 56th most popular physicist (up from 58th in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from United States (up from 247th in 2019) and the 2nd 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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Among physicists, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 56 out of 717. Before him are Christian Doppler, Wilhelm Wien, Georges Lemaître, Philipp Lenard, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Max Born. After him are Otto von Guericke, Gabriel Lippmann, Rudolf Clausius, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Mikhail Lomonosov, and Peter Debye.
1803 - 1853
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 50
1864 - 1928
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 51
1894 - 1966
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 52
1862 - 1947
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 53
1853 - 1926
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 54
1882 - 1970
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 55
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 56
1602 - 1686
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 57
1845 - 1921
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 58
1822 - 1888
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 59
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 60
1711 - 1765
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 61
1884 - 1966
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 62
Among people born in 1904, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 11. Before him are Dr. Seuss, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Cary Grant, Umberto II of Italy, B. F. Skinner, and Jean Gabin. After him are Johnny Weissmuller, Graham Greene, Alexei Kosygin, Karl Brandt, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, and Joan Crawford. Among people deceased in 1967, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 7. Before him are Che Guevara, René Magritte, Konrad Adenauer, Puyi, Vivien Leigh, and Ilse Koch. After him are Spencer Tracy, Vladimir Komarov, Clement Attlee, Edward Hopper, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and Jack Ruby.
1904 - 1991
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 5
1904 - 1918
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 6
1904 - 1986
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 7
1904 - 1983
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 8
1904 - 1990
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 9
1904 - 1976
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 10
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 11
1904 - 1984
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 12
1904 - 1991
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 13
1904 - 1980
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 14
1904 - 1948
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 15
1904 - 1988
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 16
1904 - 1977
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 17
1928 - 1967
HPI: 90.65
Rank: 1
1898 - 1967
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 2
1876 - 1967
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 3
1906 - 1967
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 4
1913 - 1967
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 5
1906 - 1967
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 6
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 7
1900 - 1967
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 8
1927 - 1967
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 9
1883 - 1967
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 10
1882 - 1967
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 11
1882 - 1967
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 12
1911 - 1967
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 13
Among people born in United States, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 213 out of 18,182. Before him are Jesse Owens (1913), Mel Gibson (1956), Philip K. Dick (1928), Charlton Heston (1923), Coen brothers (null), and Buster Keaton (1895). After him are Quentin Tarantino (1963), Miles Davis (1926), James Brown (1933), Frank Zappa (1940), Edwin McMillan (1907), and Walt Whitman (1819).
1913 - 1980
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 207
1956 - Present
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 208
1928 - 1982
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 209
1923 - 2008
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 210
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 211
1895 - 1966
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 212
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 213
1963 - Present
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 214
1926 - 1991
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 215
1933 - 2006
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 216
1940 - 1993
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 217
1907 - 1991
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 218
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 219
Among physicists born in United States, J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks 2. Before him are Richard Feynman (1918). After him are Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Clinton Davisson (1881), John Bardeen (1908), Arthur Compton (1892), Joseph Henry (1797), Kip Thorne (1940), Owen Chamberlain (1920), and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921).
1918 - 1988
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 1
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 2
1868 - 1953
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 3
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 4
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 5
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 6
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 7
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 8
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 9
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 10
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 12