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    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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    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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    Katherine 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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  • 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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    "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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • In 1928, Serber married attorney David Serber, a widower with three children. His oldest, Robert Serber, became an assistant to J. Robert Oppenheimer...
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    Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1950, supervised by Robert Serber. After completing his Ph.D. he joined the physics faculty at Indiana...
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    that planned the laboratory's scientific program, along with Robert Wilson, Robert Serber, John Williams and Edwin McMillan. On August 1, 1944, Mastick...
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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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    physicist Jean Seberg, actress Pete Seeger, folk singer, songwriter Robert Serber, physicist Artie Shaw, jazz musician, bandleader, author Irwin Shaw...
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  • supercritical radius (Rcore - Rcrit) / Rcrit. Richard Feynman Hans Bethe Robert Serber "4.1 Elements of Fission Weapon Design". Meeting and working with Richard...
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