Katherine oppenheimer: Katherine Vissering Oppenheimer (née Puening

Katherine Vissering Oppenheimer (née Puening; August 8, 1910 – October 27, 1972) was a German American biologist, botanist, and a member of the Communist Party of America. Her husbands were Frank Ramseyer, Joe Dallet, Richard Stewart Harrison, and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer . The last served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. Katherine “Toni” Oppenheimer , the daughter of J. Robert Oppenheimer , embarked on a journey that allowed her to bridge language barriers and foster understanding between diverse cultures. Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer , born Katherine Puening (1910-1972) was a German-American botanist and wife of Los Alamos Scientific Director J. Robert Oppenheimer .Kitty was briefly a lab technician at Los Alamos under the supervision of Dr. Louis Hempelmann, but quit after a year. As a trained botanist, Kitty felt stymied professionally at ... Katherine “Toni” Oppenheimer . Credit: Corbis/Getty Images Further along in Toni’s life, neighbors and friends often recalled feeling poorly about the state of her and her brother’s ...