Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon...

Falkland Islands civil servant Leslie Grade (1916–1979), born Laszlo Winogradsky, British theatrical talent agent Leslie Groves (1896–1970), American general...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The film starred Paul Newman as Leslie Groves and Dwight Schultz as J. Robert Oppenheimer, with supporting roles filled...

similar to the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Lieutenant General Leslie Groves expected to have another "Fat Man" atomic bomb ready for use on 19 August...

Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was directed by Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...

major impetus to gain Congressional approval for the project; Colonel Leslie Groves was responsible for overseeing the project for the U.S. Army Corps of...

executive Sonny Vaccaro in Affleck's acclaimed sports drama Air, as well as Leslie Groves in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. List of awards and nominations received...

January 1944 and attracted enough support for Oppenheimer to approach Groves. Groves gave approval, but he had concerns. The Manhattan Project had spent...

it can be weaponized. In 1942, during World War II, US Army Colonel Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project, recruits Oppenheimer as the...

Leslie Joseph Groves (9 June 1911 – 4 September 1990) was a New Zealand sportsman. He played 16 first-class matches for Otago between the 1929–30 and 1949–50...

1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Army component of the project...

Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves Jr., was appointed director of what became known as the Manhattan Project. By October 12, 1942, Groves and Oppenheimer...

and directed by Joseph Sargent. It starred Brian Dennehy as General Leslie Groves, David Strathairn as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Michael Tucker as...

in reference to one of Donne's poems, as a tribute to her. In 1962, Leslie Groves wrote to Oppenheimer about the origin of the name, and elicited this...

and orange groves in Florida. Historically, groves were considered sacred in pagan, pre-Christian Germanic and Celtic cultures. Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen...

later figure prominently in Nichols's career, was First Lieutenant Leslie Groves. For his service on the expedition, Nichols was awarded the Nicaraguan...

Project Leslie Groves (cricketer) (1911-1990), New Zealand cricketer Martin Groves, British hillclimb driver Mike Groves, Cricketer Naomi Jackson Groves (1910-2001)...

atomic bomb. In a memorandum to the U.S. Secretary of War, General Leslie Groves describes the yield as equivalent to 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT. Following...

Supply, appointed Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves as project director in September. Within days of taking over, Groves approved the proposed site at Oak...

April 1945, Marshall asked Groves to nominate specific targets for bombing for final approval by himself and Stimson. Groves formed a Target Committee...

houses at Los Alamos (as specified by Groves), but Nichols said to Los Alamos scientists that housing there was Groves' problem not his. Rents were set based...

the mesa. Dudley had rejected the school as not meeting Groves' criteria, but as soon as Groves saw it he said in effect "This is the place". Oppenheimer...

von Braun, a German rocket scientist with robotic prosthetic limbs. Leslie Groves, a no-nonsense US Army general and director of the Manhattan Projects...

chairman Vannevar Bush) and as a scientific advisor to Major General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project during World War II. During her career, Tolman...

the War Powers Act of 1941 to Leslie Groves for the Manhattan Project. The authority, given in a memorandum to Groves dated April 17, 1944, was retroactive...

Jackie Presser Story. Dennehy had a lead role as fire chief/celebrity dad Leslie "Buddy" Krebs in the short-lived 1982 series Star of the Family. Despite...

with Christopher Nolan in the biographical film Oppenheimer, playing Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project. The film was a critical and...

Manhattan Project. She also met the project's director, Major General Leslie Groves. She spoke at Smith College, and went to Chicago, where she met Enrico...

Hawaiian Department Lloyd Fredendall, commander of U.S. Second Army Leslie Groves, who ran the Manhattan Project and oversaw The Pentagon design and construction...

Jack Aeby Jerry C. Begay John J. Dempsey Thomas Farrell Enrico Fermi Leslie Groves John E. Miles Chester Nez Lloyd Oliver Willard Varnell Oliver J. Robert...