Oppenheimer photo exhibit at Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., June 22, 2004 -- In commemoration of the centennial year of the birth of Los Alamos National Laboratory's first director, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Bradbury Science Museum has on display an exhibit of photographs of Oppenheimer. The traveling exhibit entitled "J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1904-1967: Photographs From His Life," is on display at the museum through Sunday.

The J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee sponsors the traveling photographic exhibit. Prior to the Bradbury Science Museum, it was on display at Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos. The show will move to the Oñate Center in Española July 2-22 and to the Santa Fe Community College Sept. 9 through Oct. 14. The college has scheduled an opening reception on Sept. 23.

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.

The photographic exhibit at the museum runs concurrently to a symposium on Oppenheimer this weekend in Los Alamos. The Los Alamos Historical Society, a Laboratory-sanctioned organization, is co-sponsoring the symposium in Fuller Lodge and the Duane Smith Auditorium at Los Alamos High School.

There is no fee to see the exhibit or admission into the museum. The Bradbury Science Museum is part of Los Alamos' Public Affairs Office. It is located at 15th Street and Central Avenue in Los Alamos. Museum hours, apart from the special events, are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

For more information, contact Pat Berger of the museum at 665-0896.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy and works in partnership with NNSA's Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to support NNSA in its mission.

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