Definition of Oppenheimer

1. Noun. United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967).

Exact synonyms: Robert Oppenheimer
Generic synonyms: Nuclear Physicist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oppenheimer

Opiliones
Opisthobranchia
Opisthocomidae
Opisthocomus
Opisthocomus hoazin
Opisthognathidae
Opisthorchiidae
Opisthorchis sinensis
Opisthorchis viverrini
Opitz
Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome
Oporto
Oppenheim's reflex
Oppenheimer
Opportunity
Opposite Day
Oprah
Ops
Opsanus tau
Optez
Opuntia cholla
Opuntia lindheimeri
Opuntia tuna
Opuntiales
Opus Dei
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Ora
Orabase

Literary usage of Oppenheimer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Saginaw County, Michigan: Historical, Commercial, Biographical by James Cooke Mills (1918)
"The nature of his business brought Mr. oppenheimer in contact with a very ... Mr. oppenheimer never married, but for years made his home with a brother, ..."

2. The Great American Fraud: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quacks, in Two by Samuel Hopkins Adams (1907)
"The leaflet begins with a paragraph headed "What the oppenheimer Treatment <^an Do." Under this heading the leaflet states that: "The oppenheimer treatment ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"BY BS oppenheimer, MD, ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO THE DISPENSARY OF MT. SINAI HOSPITAL, NEW YORK. (From the Children's Service of Dr. Koplik, ..."

4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1908)
"BY LEO BUERGER AND ADELE oppenheimer. (From the Pathological Laboratory, Aft. Sinai Hospital, New York.) PLATES XXIV AND XXV. In recent years a number of ..."

5. The Bookman (1915)
"... annoyed beyond endurance at the children beggars, adopt Betty's discovery; point your finger at them sharply and utter the mystic curse "oppenheimer. ..."

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