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    George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky (Russian: Георгий Богданович Кистяковский, Ukrainian: Георгій Богданович Кістяківський, romanized: Heorhii Bohdanovych...
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  • Kistiakowsky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Kistiakowsky (1904–1983), Ukrainian ornithologist George Kistiakowsky (1900–1982)...
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    Project's Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where he worked with George Kistiakowsky on the development of explosive lenses required to detonate the implosion-type...
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  • Nolan's film, Oppenheimer, where he portrays the Ukrainian scientist George Kistiakowsky. Film and Television appearances correct as of August 2024 Aurvåg...
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    research program. Edwin McMillan and Isidor Isaac Rabi recommended that George Kistiakowsky, who had a specialized knowledge in the precision use of explosives...
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  • terrorism) Joseph Waggoner, Jr.; US Congressman George Kistiakowsky; Atomic scientist, Harvard University George Rathjens; Professor of Political Science, MIT...
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    Weaponeer" on the life of President Eisenhower's Science Advisor George Kistiakowsky. In 2000, Druyan, together with Steve Soter, co-wrote Passport to...
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    P. Mitchell (Procurement Director) and Deak Parsons. McMillan, George Kistiakowsky and Kenneth Bainbridge were later added. The laboratory was organized...
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    studies in hyperconjugation were performed by in the research group of George Kistiakowsky. Their work, first published in 1937, was intended as a preliminary...
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  • Gleason as Dora Welsh Clark Gregg as Douglas Panton Péter Halász as George Kistiakowsky Robert Peter Gale as Dr. Louis Hempelemann Krzysztof Pieczyński as...
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    of physics at Harvard University, working under explosives expert George Kistiakowsky. Bainbridge's group was known as the E-9 (Explosives Development)...
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  • consisting of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second adviser George Kistiakowsky, Kennedy adviser Jerome Wiesner, and many scientists that took part...
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    graphic artist, painter, illustrator Eugene Hütz, singer and composer George Kistiakowsky, physical chemistry professor Oleksandra Matviichuk, human rights...
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  • implications for philosophy and computer science. Trond Fausa as George Kistiakowsky, a Harvard professor who took part in the Manhattan Project. Devon...
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    Bruceton, Pennsylvania (a Pittsburgh suburb), where they spoke to George Kistiakowsky and his team. But Neddermeyer's efforts in July and August at imploding...
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  • ornithologist and a specialist on bird lice. He was a brother of George Kistiakowsky. His contributions to ornithology included ideas on navigation by...
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    and later atomic spy who supplied information to the Soviet Union. George Kistiakowsky, chemist and designer of shaped implosive charges. He was also an...
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    Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-21. Stein, George (January 31, 1988). "Obituaries : James Killian; Educator, Adviser to Two...
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    1967—Jesse Beams, Francis Birch, Gregory Breit, Louis Plack Hammett, George Kistiakowsky 1968—Paul Doughty Bartlett, Herbert Friedman, Lars Onsager, Eugene...
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    of PSAC, including that of its chairmen James Rhyne Killian and George Kistiakowsky, was a key factor in Eisenhower's eventual decision to initiate test-ban...
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    Federation of American Scientists summary, give a framework. In 1958, George Kistiakowsky, a key Manhattan Project scientist and Science Advisor in the Eisenhower...
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    with Nadezhda Krupskaya. They had two sons: the American chemist George Kistiakowsky, and the Ukrainian ornithologist Oleksandr Kistiakivskyi. Upon return...
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    24, 1964 President John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Preceded by George Kistiakowsky Succeeded by Donald Hornig Personal details Born Jerome Bert Wiesner...
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    Oliphant convincing Lawrence, Lawrence convincing Compton, and then George Kistiakowsky convincing Conant to move forward with nuclear weapons. These actions...
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    in explosives, and McMillan urged Oppenheimer to bring in George Kistiakowsky. Kistiakowsky joined the laboratory on February 16, 1944, and Parsons's...
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    section of uranium-235. Oppenheimer's calculations, which Bush had George Kistiakowsky check, estimated that the critical mass of a sphere of Uranium-235...
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    to focus on development of an implosion-type weapon and appointed George Kistiakowsky head of the implosion department. He was a professor at Harvard and...
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    After a series of failed attempts with models, this was achieved by George Kistiakowsky, and the construction of the Trinity bomb was completed in July 1945...
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    weapon, X (for explosives) Division headed by explosives expert George Kistiakowsky and G (for gadget) Division under Robert Bacher. The new design featured...
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    and in October 1943 he brought in George Kistiakowsky, who began a new attack on the implosion design. Kistiakowsky clashed with both Parsons and Neddermeyer...
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