Extract Dates & Events

Extract dates and description of events in chronological order from a paragraph.

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Extract all the dates from the text above and list them in chronological order. Place them in bullet points. Beside each date write only one sentence explaining what happened on that date.

Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 22,1904. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1925 and a doctorate in physics from the University of Göttingen in Germany in 1927, where he studied under Max Born. In 1936, Oppenheimer joined the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became a full professor. He was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project in 1942 and in 1943 he was appointed director of the project's Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico to develop the first nuclear weapons. Under his supervision, the first atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945 with the codename, "Trinity". In August 1945, the weapons were used against Japan in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

In 1947, Oppenheimer became the director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He utilized his position to lobby for international control of nuclear power to avert nuclear proliferation and a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. He opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb during a 1949–1950 governmental debate and subsequently sided on defense-related issues that provoked the U.S. government and military factions. During the second Red Scare, Oppenheimer's stances and his past associations with the Communist Party USA, led to the revocation of his security clearance, following a 1954 security hearing. This effectively ended his access to the government's atomic secrets and his career as a nuclear physicist.

Response

Here are the dates from the text in chronological order, with a brief explanation of what happened on each date:

  • 1895: Einstein moved to Switzerland.
  • 1896: Einstein renounced his German citizenship.
  • 1897: Einstein enrolled in the mathematics and physics teaching diploma program at the Swiss federal polytechnic school in Zürich.
  • 1900: Einstein graduated from the Swiss federal polytechnic school in Zürich.
  • 1901: Einstein acquired Swiss citizenship.
  • 1903: Einstein secured a permanent position at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern.
  • 1905: Einstein submitted a successful PhD dissertation to the University of Zurich.
  • 1914: Einstein moved to Berlin to join the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Humboldt University of Berlin.
  • 1917: Einstein became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics and regained German citizenship.
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