Robert Serber
1909
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1997
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Lehigh University
occupation: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, Fellow of the American Physical Society
influenced by: Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Serber (March 14, 1909 – June 1, 1997) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic principles and goals of the project were printed and supplied to all incoming scientific staff, and became known as The Los Alamos Primer. The New York Times called him “the intellectual midwife at the birth of the atomic bomb.” Source: Wikipedia (en)
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