Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

PRINCETON, N.J. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb who was later branded a security risk, died Saturday night of cancer. He was 62. Oppenheimer who was director of the Los ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American Jewish physicist who was officially credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb,” died at his home here last night at the age of 62. He had been ...