Robert Serber (March 14, 1909 – June 1, 1997) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic...
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Retrieved April 14, 2018. "Charlotte Serber". Atomic Heritage Foundation. Retrieved April 13, 2018. Serber, Robert (1994). "Peaceful Pastimes 1930 – 1950"...
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Kitty Oppenheimer (category J. Robert Oppenheimer)
Barton J (September 2001). "Interpreting the Elusive Robert Serber: What Serber Says and What Serber Does Not Explicitly Say". Studies in History and Philosophy...
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during the Manhattan Project. The five lectures were given by physicist Robert Serber in April 1943. The notes from the lectures which became the Primer were...
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Jean Tatlock (category J. Robert Oppenheimer)
Charlotte Serber at Los Alamos. As the librarian, Serber had access to the Technical Area and informed her husband, physicist Robert Serber, who then...
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teach one term at Caltech. Oppenheimer repeatedly attempted to get Robert Serber a position at Berkeley but was blocked by Birge, who felt that "one...
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"Thin Man" and "Fat Man" respectively. These code names were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Oppenheimer's, who worked on the Manhattan Project...
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experimental physics groups scattered across the country. Oppenheimer and Robert Serber of the University of Illinois examined the problems of neutron diffusion—how...
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discussed in the introductory lectures given to Los Alamos scientists by Robert Serber, Neddermeyer was one of the first to urge its full development. Unable...
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Oppenheimer's associate Robert Serber, writing another colleague that "one Jew in the department is enough." Both Oppenheimer and Serber were Jewish. During...
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Oppenheimer (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of J. Robert Oppenheimer)
Leslie Groves Peter Whitman as Robert Serber Matthew Guinness as Hans Bethe Bob Sherman as Ernest Lawrence John Morton as Robert Wilson Garrick Hagon as Frank...
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left without one of the support members when Major Hopkins ordered Robert Serber of Project Alberta to leave the plane – reportedly after the B-29 had...
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Philosophy (PhD) in 1954. His PhD was on the subject of muonic atoms, with Robert Serber as his thesis advisor. Cooper spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher...
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got their names. Los Alamos Laboratory and Project Alberta physicist Robert Serber stated, many decades after the fact, that he had named the first two...
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describing the static spherically symmetric perfect fluid. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Serber, and George Volkoff, built upon this work in their investigation...
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in the same year, Oppenheimer and three colleagues, Richard Tolman, Robert Serber, and George Volkoff, had investigated the stability of neutron stars...
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(1971). 1969 – Paul Dirac 1970 – Freeman Dyson 1971 – Abdus Salam 1972 – Robert Serber 1973 – Steven Weinberg 1974 – Edwin Ernest Salpeter 1975 – Nicholas...
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polarization were calculated to first order in the coupling constant by Robert Serber and Edwin Albrecht Uehling in 1935. According to quantum field theory...
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surrounding the core of a nuclear weapon with a tamper was introduced by Robert Serber in his Los Alamos Primer, a series of lectures given in April 1943 as...
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The Day After Trinity (category J. Robert Oppenheimer)
Oppenheimer Robert Serber – physicist, Los Alamos Robert Wilson – physicist, Los Alamos Frank Oppenheimer – physicist, Los Alamos, brother of Robert Oppenheimer...
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Man" and "Fat Man", respectively. These code names were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Oppenheimer's who worked on the Manhattan Project...
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experimental physics groups scattered across the country. Oppenheimer and Robert Serber of the University of Illinois examined the problems of neutron diffusion—how...
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inventor of the atomic bomb Robert Serber (1909–1997), American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project Robert Ballard (born 1942), retired...
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Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for the measurement...
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assembled, such as the implosion method invented by Richard C. Tolman, Robert Serber, and other scientists at the University of California, Berkeley in 1942...
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semiconductor research. He earned his PhD in physics at UC Berkeley with Robert Serber as thesis advisor in 1951 and began his career at the Bell Telephone...
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counter, at that time). The physicist and Manhattan Project participant Robert Serber noted that somehow "the popular notion took hold long ago that Einstein's...
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end of the conference, in spite of opposition by some members such as Robert Serber, Teller submitted an optimistic report in which he said that a hydrogen...
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annotated version of The Los Alamos Primer, by Manhattan Project scientist Robert Serber. The Primer was a set of lectures given to new arrivals at the secret...
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about how plutonium might be produced in a nuclear reactor, and with Robert Serber about how the plutonium produced in a reactor might be separated from...
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