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→Death and Legacy: Oppenheimer smoked about 100 cigarettes a day
==Death and Legacy==
==Death and Legacy==
Oppenheimer died in Princeton, New Jersey on February 18, 1967 from throat cancer.<ref>[http://history1900s.about.com/cs/robertoppenheimer/p/oppenheimer.htm J. Robert Oppenheimer]</ref>
Oppenheimer died in Princeton, New Jersey on February 18, 1967 from throat cancer.<ref>"[http://history1900s.about.com/cs/robertoppenheimer/p/oppenheimer.htm J. Robert Oppenheimer]</ref> He had a habit of smoking "about 100 cigarettes a day."<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1255958/#:~:text=Robert%20Oppenheimer%2C%20the%20scientific%20director,named%20it%20the%20Manhattan%20Project.</ref>
In 1963, President [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] reinstated Oppenheimer's clearance, and the AEC awarded him the Enrico Fermi Award.<ref>[http://dsd.lbl.gov/ImgLib/COLLECTIONS/BERKELEY-LAB/SEABORG-ARCHIVE/index/96B05399.html J. Robert Oppenheimer receiving the AEC Enrico Fermi Award], photograph and description, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</ref>
In 1963, President [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] reinstated Oppenheimer's clearance, and the AEC awarded him the Enrico Fermi Award.<ref>[http://dsd.lbl.gov/ImgLib/COLLECTIONS/BERKELEY-LAB/SEABORG-ARCHIVE/index/96B05399.html J. Robert Oppenheimer receiving the AEC Enrico Fermi Award], photograph and description, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</ref>