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Hace 4 días · J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist behind the Manhattan Project, played a pivotal role in developing atomic weapons and forever changed the course of history with his contributions to nuclear science.
- J Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American scientist. He studied...
- Robert B. Laughlin
Robert B. Laughlin is an American physicist who, with Daniel...
- Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929, New York, New...
- Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan is a British film director and writer...
- Edward Teller
Edward Teller (born Jan. 15, 1908, Budapest, Hung.,...
- J Robert Oppenheimer
Hace 2 días · In 1942, Oppenheimer was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project, and in 1943 was appointed director of the project's Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, tasked with developing the first nuclear weapons. His leadership and scientific expertise were instrumental in the project's success.
Hace 3 días · From the uranium-bearing silver mines of medieval Jachymóv, Czechia, to the uranium enrichment facilities founded in Oak Ridge, Tennessee as part of the Manhattan Project, Santos tells this story in a breezy, anecdote-driven style. The fact that many of her chosen anecdotes also appear in other books on the histories of quantum mechanics ...
Hace 4 días · Using the Cyclotron and the combined expertise of scientists including Isidor I. Rabi, Enrico Fermi and Dunning, the team mastered the “gaseous diffusion” method of separating uranium isotopes.
Hace 4 días · The Manhattan Project. 1943-1945. Hidden in remote cities and factories across the United States, scientists and ordinary citizens work in secrecy to produce the hardware and fissionable material to build an atomic bomb. The Calutron Girls separated uranium at Y-12 in Oak Ridge National Laboratory without knowing what they were working on.
Hace 4 días · Atomic bomb, weapon with great explosive power that results from splitting the nuclei of a heavy metal such as plutonium or uranium.
Hace 1 día · The Manhattan Project. During World War II, Dr. Wu was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to develop the atomic bomb. She was assigned to the Columbia University team led by Enrico Fermi, where she played a crucial role in separating uranium isotopes.
