the code name of the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945
What is the Trinity
100
Besides French and Literature, he studied this which is the study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals.
What is Mineralogy
100
A global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, which involved most of the world's nations
What is World War II
100
What is the year that he was born
What is April 22, 1904
100
He calculated this, where electrons are emitted from matter, for hydrogen and X-Rays
What is The Photoelectric Effect
200
Made important contributions to this theory, where highly energetic atomic nucleus or other particle traveling through space at a speed approaching that of light
What is Cosmic Rays
200
A branch of physics which uses mathematical models to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena.
What is Theoretical Physics
200
He stayed away from society, and did not find out about the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States
What is Wall Street crash of 1929
200
He left Cambridge to study under Max Born at this university in Europe
What is University of Göttingen
200
An explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions
What is The Atomic Bomb
300
Contributed to the findings of these, region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape
What is Black Holes
300
He became Cheif of this agency of the United States government established after World War II by Congress to foster and control the peace time development of atomic science and technology.
What is United States Atomic Energy Commission
300
Advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs was going on during his time
What is Communism
300
President John F. Kennedy awarded him with this as a gesture of political rehabilitation.
What is Enrico Fermi Award
300
The approximation that the nuclei remain stationary on the time scale of electron movement.
What is Born-Oppenheimer approximation
400
Located in Princeton, New Jersey, this is a center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry, where he was director for a number of years
What is the Institute for Advanced Study
400
The geometric theory of gravitation introduced by Albert Einstein
What is General Relativity
400
He lived through this devastating, major economic collapse that lasted from 1929 to 1940
What is the Great Depression
400
Oppenheimer joined with Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Joseph Rotblat and other eminent scientists and academics to establish what
What is the World Academy of Art and Science
400
A type of deuteron-induced nuclear reaction. A stable isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron fuses with a target nucleus
What is Oppenheimer–Phillips process
500
He was director of this project, which was the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons
What is the Manhattan Project
500
He studied and worked wit these negatively charged particles and these subatomic particle with the same mass as an electron
What is Electrons and Positrons
500
The act of forbidding something by law
What is Prohibition
500
He died on February 18, 1967 due to this type of cancer
What is Throat Cancer
500
This is where a particle tunnels through a barrier that it classically could not surmount because its total kinetic energy is lower than the potential energy of the barrier.