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Q7085
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
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Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
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Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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 atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.
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John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
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Maria Goeppert Mayer
German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)
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James Chadwick
English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
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Eugene Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
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Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist
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Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
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Arthur Holly Compton
American physicist (1892–1962)
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James Franck
German physicist (1882–1964)
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Isidor Isaac Rabi
American physicist (1898–1988)
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Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
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Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
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Felix Bloch
Swiss physicist (1905-1983)
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Aage Bohr
Danish physicist (1922–2009)
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John Cockcroft
British physicist (1897–1967)
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Emilio G. Segrè
Italian physicist and Nobel laureate
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Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist (1912–1999)
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Harold Urey
American physical chemist
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Roy J. Glauber
American theoretical physicist (1925–2018)
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Owen Chamberlain
American physicist
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Willard Libby
American physical chemist
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Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
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Melvin Calvin
American biochemist (1911–1997)
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Frederick Reines
American physicist (1918–1998)
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Leó Szilárd
Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898–1964)
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
American physicist (1899–1980)
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Norman Foster Ramsey
American physicist (1915–2011)
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James Rainwater
American physicist
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Val Logsdon Fitch
American physicist
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Edwin McMillan
American physicist (1907-1991)
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Stanisław Ulam
Polish-American mathematician
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Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)
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Gerard Kuiper
Netherlands-born American astronomer (1905–1973)
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Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
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John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
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Jerome Karle
American physical chemist (1918–2013)
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Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974)
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David Bohm
American theoretical physicist
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Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian-born British nuclear physicist
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Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
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Victor Weisskopf
Austrian American theoretical physicist (1908–2002)
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Leslie Groves
United States Army Corps of Engineers officer (1896–1970)
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Richard Hamming
American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
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Rudolf Peierls
German-born British physicist
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Samuel Goudsmit
Dutch-American physicist (1902–1978)
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John George Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President of Dartmouth College
Bruno Pontecorvo
Italian nuclear physicist (1913–1993)
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Philip Abelson
US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory (1913–2004)
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
British mathematician and physicist (1886-1975)
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Nathan Rosen
American-Israeli physicist
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Mark Oliphant
nuclear physicist, Governor of South Australia (1901–2000)
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Richard Chace Tolman
American physicist (1881–1948)
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Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
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James Bryant Conant
American chemist (1893–1978)
Gordon Gould
American physicist and inventor (1920–2005)
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Albert Ghiorso
American nuclear scientist