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Oppenheimer photo exhibition opens Sept. 9 in Santa Fe

In commemoration of the centennial year of the birth of Los Alamos' first director, J. Robert Oppenheimer, an exhibit of photographs of Oppenheimer entitled "J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1904-1967: Photographs From His Life," opens Sept. 9 in Santa Fe.

The J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee sponsors the traveling photographic exhibit. It has previously been on display in the Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum, the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos and the Oñate Center in Española. The display at Santa Fe Community College runs through Oct. 14.

As part of the exhibit, the college is hosting a reception and   talk beginning at 5 p.m., Sept. 23. Authors Kai Bird and Gregg Herken will talk about Oppenheimer's life, including his post-Manhattan efforts to control the use of the atomic bomb. The talk follows the reception at 7 p.m., in the Jemez Rooms at the college. The talk is free and moderated by Ellen Bradbury of Recursos de Santa Fe.

Curated by members of the Oppenheimer Committee, the display includes more than 50 photos gathered from the collections of the Robert and Frank Oppenheimer families, the archives of the University of California Berkeley's Bancroft library, Harvard University, Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Laboratory.

--Steve Sandoval

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