Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer

male, deceased (1967)
J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the...
Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi

male, deceased (1954)
Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 - November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear...
Edward Teller

Edward Teller

male, deceased (2003)
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name "Teller Ede") (January 15 1908 - September 9 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical...
Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

male, deceased (1962)
Niels (Henrik David) Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for...
Leslie Groves

Leslie Groves

male, deceased (1970)
Leslie Richard Groves (August 17, 1896 - July 13, 1970) was a United States Army officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and was the...
Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

male, deceased (1988) (FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, United States)
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of...
Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe

male, deceased (2005)
Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced "BAY-tuh"); (July 2 1906--March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush

male, deceased (1974)
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 - June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work on analog computing, his...
Klaus Fuchs

Klaus Fuchs

male, deceased (1988)
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (December 29, 1911 - January 28, 1988) was a German-born theoretical physicist and atomic spy who was convicted of...
John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...