Kitty was briefly a lab technician at Los Alamos under the supervision …

Oppenheimer married her on November 1, 1940 and the couple had two children named Peter and Katherine. He was diagnosed with throat cancer and despite a successful chemotherapy; he fell into a coma and passed away.

It was at a Pasadena party in 1939 that Robert Oppenheimer, then 35, met Katherine Puening Harrison. A year later, after the Harrisons were divorced, Kitty and Robert were married. A small, German-born brunette, Mrs. Harrison was the wife of a radiologist, and herself a graduate student in plant physiology at U.C.L.A. Katherine married Julius Robert Oppenheimer on month day 1940, at age 30 at marriage place, Nevada. Julius was born on April 22 1904, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Katherine passed … Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, born Katherine Puening (1910-1972) was a German-American botanist and wife of Los Alamos Scientific Director J. Robert Oppenheimer. In his honor, an asteroid ‘67085 Oppenheimer’ and a lunar crater, ‘Oppenheimer’, was named after him. His occupation was Physicist.