Robert Serber
American physicist (1909–1997) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 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."[2]
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Born | (1909-03-14)March 14, 1909 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | June 1, 1997(1997-06-01) (aged 88) New York City, U.S. |
Education | Lehigh University (BS) University of Wisconsin, Madison (MS, PhD) |
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Fields | Nuclear physics |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Doctoral advisor | John Hasbrouck Van Vleck |
Doctoral students | Keith Brueckner Leon Cooper H. Pierre Noyes Donald H. Weingarten Peter A. Wolff[1] |
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