Facts on Manhattan Project people

Neils Bohr

Was a world renowned Danish physicist born in the year 1885.

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Enrico Fermi

Was an Italian experimental and theoretical physicist.

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John von Neumann

Was a Hungarian-American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields.

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Richard Feynman

Was an American Theoretical Physicist known for his contributions to the development of quantum electro dynamics.

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Hans Bethe

Was a German-born American theoretical physicist who is credited as one fo the founders of quantum physics.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Was an American nuclear theoretical physicist and science administrator also known as the “father of the atomic bomb”.

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Edward Teller

Was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the production of the first atomic bomb as well as the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, Hydrogen bomb.

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Willard Libby

Was an American chemist best known as the developer of the radiocarbon dating technique for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1960.

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David Bohm

was an American theoretical physicist who contributed innovative and unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, philosophy of mind, and neuropsychology

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James Chadwick

An English physicist who discovered the neutron.

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Leo Szilard

A Hungarian-American physicist and inventor.

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Maria Goeppert-Mayer

A German born American theoretical physicist.

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