J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist from the United States who taught at the University of California, Berkeley. On April 22, 1904, he was born.

Oppenheimer was the wartime director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is considered the “Father of the Atomic Bomb” for his participation in the Manhattan Project, which created the first nuclear weapons during World War II.

He had a son named Peter Oppenheimer.

Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer son Peter Oppenheimer?

Peter Oppenheimer, according to nuclearmuseum.org, is a carpenter.

Peter was born in 1941 in California, and moved with his parents to Los Alamos when his father became the course director of Los Alamos [National] Laboratory.

However, most of his childhood was spent in Princeton, New Jersey, during the period that his father was the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study.

After an unhappy childhood in Princeton, Peter went west soon after high school. He spent some time with his uncle, Frank Oppenheimer, at his ranch in Colorado.

He was in intermittent contact with his parents throughout the 1960s. Soon after Robert Oppenheimer died in 1967, he permanently moved to rural northern New Mexico, living at the Perro Caliente ranch in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains that Robert purchased decades earlier.

He works as a carpenter, and now has three adult children, Dorothy, Charlie, and Ella. He lives contently in seclusion.

Note: This article was update on September 18, 2023.