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He's famously known for quoting the Hindu text, "The Bhagavad Gita," following the nuclear weapons test, saying: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." But he later resigned from the Manhattan Project shortly after the US dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
The film also looks at Oppenheimer's complex personal life, including his marriage to Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, née Puening.
Here's everything you need to know about the real Oppenheimer's family.
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Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer was three times before she married Oppenheimer.
Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, née Puening, smiles in a photograph.Corbis/Getty Images
Peter Oppenheimer still lives on his father's ranch in New Mexico.
Peter Oppenheimer.Corbis/Getty Images
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Katherine "Toni" Oppenheimer died in 1977.
Katherine "Toni" Oppenheimer.Corbis/Getty Images
Peter Oppenheimer had three children: Charles Oppenheimer, Dorothy Vanderford, and Ella Oppenheimer.
Charles Oppenheimer and Dorothy Vanderford.Atomic Heritage Foundation/YouTube