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Also Known As Harrison Scott Brown
Born September 26, 1917 • Sheridan • Wyoming
Died December 8, 1986 (aged 69) • Albuquerque • New Mexico
Subjects Of Study meteorite • plutonium
Role In Manhattan Project
Harold C. Urey
American chemist
David S. McKay
American astrobiologist and geologist
Cyril Stanley Smith
American metallurgist
Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée
French geochemist
Fred L. Whipple
American astronomer
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
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
Willard Frank Libby
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
William Webster Hansen
American physicist
Gordon Gould
American physicist
James Franck
James Franck
German physicist