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Born October 4, 1903 • Birmingham • England
Died August 25, 1992 (aged 88) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works “A History of Metallography: The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metals Before 1890”
Subjects Of Study plutonium • uranium
Role In Manhattan Project
William Webster Hansen
American physicist
Willard Frank Libby
American chemist
Harrison Brown
American geochemist
Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian physicist
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Theodore Hall
American-born physicist and spy
Leslie Groves
Leslie Richard Groves
United States general
Emilio Segrè
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Daniel Cowan Jackling.
Daniel Cowan Jackling
American engineer
Gordon Gould
American physicist
Arden L. Bement, Jr.
American metallurgical engineer and science administrator
James Franck
James Franck
German physicist