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Atomic Bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer was more than just a physicist
6. Robert Oppenheimer never had a stable love life. He met Jean Tatlock in
1936. Tatlock was an American physician and also a member of the Communist
Party of the USA. They broke up in 1939. In the August of the same year,
Oppenheimer fell in love with and started his affair with Katherine Puening who
was already married to Richard Tolman. She divorced Tolman when she got
pregnant and married Oppenheimer in 1940. He was her fourth husband. He
continued his affair with Tatlock, who in 1944, committed suicide due to severe
depression.
Colorized Image of Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer at the IAS, 1947. Image source.