Herbert York
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Herbert Frank York was an American nuclear physicist of Mohawk origin. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes.
Herbert F. York in 1957
Frank Oppenheimer
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Frank Friedman Oppenheimer was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Herbert York
…mechanics class. During World War II, he was a physicist at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working alongside Frank Oppenheimer as part of the Manhattan Project. After a brief stint as an assistant professor of physics at his doctoral alma mater in 1951, he was selected by Ernest…
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Oppenheimer (center) with part of a calutron at Berkeley (date unknown)
The home that once belonged to Frank Oppenheimer, on his 1,500-acre (610 ha) cattle ranch in the valley of the Rio Blanco in the mountains near Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Oppenheimer as Director of the Exploratorium standing next to the Coupled Pendulums exhibit c. 1980