Leslie Groves
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Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, the top secret research program that deve
Groves in 1948
Northwest exposure showing construction of the Pentagon, 1 July 1942
Groves ran the Manhattan Project from the fifth floor of the New War Department Building.
Groves (left) and Robert Oppenheimer
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
Leslie Groves
…mid-November U.S. Marshals were tacking notices to vacate on farmhouse doors, and construction contractors were moving in. Meanwhile, Groves had met with J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, and discussed the creation of a laboratory where the bomb could be designed and tested. Groves…
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.