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Laura Rosenfeld, Art on Campus Coordinator Phone: 428-1230

Jill Janov, Marketing and Public Relations Phone: 428-1776

SFCC Exhibit Offers Glimpse of A-bomb Creator’s Life

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July 21, 2004 — Santa Fe Community College will host a photographic exhibit on the life of J.
Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, humanitarian and educator, in the
campus’ main entry from Sept. 9 through Oct. 14. An opening reception will be held on Sept. 23
from 5 to 7 p.m. followed by a lecture on Oppenheimer’s controversial life.

“J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1904 – 1967: Photographs From His Life,” is a collection of 50 black-
and-white photographs illustrating Oppenheimer's accomplishments in teaching, research and
service to his country. Curated by the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee, the exhibit
includes photos from the archives of Harvard University, Princeton University, the Institute for
Advanced Study, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial
Committee and the Oppenheimer family.

Oppenheimer’s life, his work on the Manhattan Project, and his later efforts to control the use of
the bomb will be explored in a lecture with authors Kai Bird and Gregg Herken following the
exhibit’s opening reception at SFCC in the Jemez Rooms at 7 p.m. Bird, former associate editor
of The Nation magazine, is the co-author of a forthcoming biography on Oppenheimer. Herken is
a history professor at the University of California in Merced and author of “Brotherhood of the
Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward
Teller.”

The free lecture, moderated by Ellen Bradbury of Recursos de Santa Fe, is part of the Foundation
for the Santa Fe Community College’s Carol J. Worrell Lecture Series.

For information on the exhibit, call 428-1230. For details on the lecture, contact 428-1232.

About Santa Fe Community College

Santa Fe Community College serves more than 14,500 students per year in its credit, noncredit
and adult basic education programs. For further information, visit www.sfccnm.edu or call (505)
428-1000.
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