User:500wordslater/Katherine Oppenheimer

Kitty would say that her father was the prince of a small state called Westphalia in Germany.

"off Carvel Rock in St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands"

Kitty was said to get drunk to the point of falling down and passing out, however, Serber claimed that this was due to the medication that she was taking for her painful pancreatitis.

The government would then go on to leave her and Serber alone, regarding communist allegations and trials.

in her right arm

Late Life
Kitty would never remarry, however, she would spend the rest of her life with Robert Serber, an American physicist who also worked on the Manhattan Project. Kitty and Serber would continue to have a platonic relationship, and it is not reported that they ever tried to pursue a romantic relationship.

where she was the captain. Before she died, she had been planning to sail to Japan with Serber. She wanted to sail through the Panama Canal to get to Japan.

After Kitty's death in 1972, Serber would go on to continue to live in the house built for them by Kitty Oppenheimer near Toni Oppenheimer. Toni Oppenheimer would go on to commit suicide in 1977. She went on to hang herself in the backyard of the house that her father, Robert Oppenheimer, had built for her to live in.

Personality
To other's Kitty seemed to be intimidating as the wife of J. R. Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project's Laboratory. To her friends, she seemed nervous and afraid. Her friend, Pat Sherr, described her intimidating stature as "an act". Kitty often had a hard time fitting in to high society life, and her mood was often easily reflected in the way she would speak and act. Jackie Oppenheimer, the wife of Frank Oppenheimer, claimed that Kitty was "a schemer" and that if Kitty wanted something, then Kitty would get it.

Children
Kitty and Robert had two children over the course of their time together, a boy and a girl named Peter and Katherine, aka "Toni". Kitty had Peter in the May of 1941, who was nicknamed "Pronto" due to the speed of his arrival after their marriage. After the birth of Peter, Kitty became a stay at home mom, leaving her biology job at the University of California, Berkley. Robert and Kitty would both go on to struggle to bond with their son, Peter. It was said that Kitty would often get in arguments with Peter throughout his childhood and adulthood about things like his weight. Kitty even went as far as to put him on a diet at the age of eleven. Kitty had their second child, Toni, at Los Alamos in 1944. Kitty was said to have treated her second child and only daughter, Toni, differently than she treated Peter. Some would recount that Toni and Kitty had a special bond. The disciplining of the children was left to Kitty and taken out of Robert's hands. Peter Oppenheimer went on to become a carpenter. Toni Oppenheimer, who died in 1977, was an translator.