Gregory Breit
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Gregory Breit was an American physicist born in Mykolaiv, Russian Empire. He was a professor at New York University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Yale University, and University at Buffalo. In 192
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomi
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…resigned his position in 1942, feeling that the work was going too slowly and that there had been security breaches on the project; his job went to Robert Oppenheimer, who was later appointed to scientific director of what became Project Y, the design and testing of the weapon. In 2014, experimentalists proposed a…
Oppenheimer in 1944
Oppenheimer in the Harvard University yearbook, 1926
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Laboratory in Leiden, Netherlands, July 1927. Oppenheimer is in the middle row, second from the left.
University of California Radiation Laboratory staff, including Robert R. Wilson and Nobel prize winners Ernest Lawrence, Edwin McMillan, and Luis Walter Alvarez, on the magnet yoke for the 60-inch (152 cm) cyclotron, 1938. Oppenheimer is the tall figure holding a pipe in the top row, just right of center.