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The Legacy of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer's legacy as the architect of the nuclear age is tragic, as some of his work has led to potentially the destruction of the human species. He believed that theory should be closely related to experiments and his new information had to do with really understanding nuclear physics.
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