Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (June 11, 1915 - October 17, 1999) was an American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist. Metropolis received his B.Sc. (1937) and Ph.D. (1941) degrees in experimental physics at the University of Chicago. Shortly afterwards, Robert Oppenheimer recruited him from Chicago, where he was at the time collaborating with Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller on the first nuclear reactors, to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Wikipedia
Metropolis returned to the University of Chicago in 1957 as professor of physics, founded and directed the university's Institute for Computer Research, but came back to Los Alamos in 1965. scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Metropolis.html
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Dr. Metropolis was best known for his contributions to the Monte Carlo mathematical method, which applies the laws of probability to scientific research. From 1948 to 1952, he also used the stored program-a principal that outlines the internal organizati www.greece.org/ahepa/Nick_Metro.html
