When1: 1932
When2: 1945
Who: J. Robert Oppenheimer [Oppenheimer, J. Robert]
What: physicist
Where: USA
Detail: He lived 1904 to 1967 and developed the Born-Oppenheimer relation between molecular rotation, vibration, and electronic structure [1932]. He and Hartland Snyder used general relativity to describe black holes [1939]. He and G. M. Volkov found mass limit {Landau-Oppenheimer-Volkov limit, Oppenheimer} for making black holes instead of neutron stars, 2.5 times Sun mass [1939]. He led Manhattan Project [1945].
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