Oppenheimer in New York: Upper West Side Walking Tour

We will visit the premarital home of Ella Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer's mother, to discuss J. Robert Oppenheimer's immigrant ancestry.(10 min)

We will visit the site of Oppenheimer's birth to discuss his parents' life in New York.(10 min)

We will visit the former home of Edwin R. A. Seligman to discuss Oppenheimer's education at the Ethical Culture School.(15 min)

We will visit the Clarendon, the former home of William Randolph Hearst, who was the talk of Oppenheimer's childhood neighborhood and had ties with the world leaders who would be forever connected by WWII and Oppenheimer.(10 min)

We will visit the childhood home of J. Robert Oppenheimer to discuss his childhood and adolescence.(15 min)

Visitors will learn about the history of Riverside Drive that coincided with Oppenheimer's formative years.(15 min)

We will visit the Master Apartments to discuss FDR's New Deal and the various ideologies of that era that prospered and informed Oppenheimer as a young man.(10 min)

We will look at the Shinran Statue to discuss the cause and the effect of the atomic bomb.(15 min)

We will visit the home of Isidor Rabi, a pioneer in 20th-century physics, a Nobel Prize winner, and a close friend of Oppenheimer.(10 min)