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Also Known As William George Penney, Baron Penney of East Hendred
Born June 24, 1909 • Gibraltar
Died March 3, 1991 (aged 81) • England
Role In Manhattan Project
Karl Taylor Compton
American physicist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Emilio Segrè
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Stanislaw Ulam
American scientist
Walter Henry Zinn
American physicist
Theodore Hall
American-born physicist and spy
Joseph Rotblat
Joseph Rotblat
British physicist and philanthropist
Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop
Australian-born nuclear physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
William Webster Hansen
American physicist
Klaus Fuchs
German physicist and spy
Alexander Stanley Elmore
English metallurgist
Francis Edward Elmore
English metallurgist
William Penney
British scientist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer