Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer

male, deceased (1967)
scientist, physicist, Throat cancer death, German-American, los alamos national laboratory, World War II…atomic bomb, UnitedStatesAtomicEnergyCommission, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic energy, father of the atomic bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the...
Richard G. Hewlett

Richard G. Hewlett

male, 86 years old
historian, Historian of science, American, Public historian, Nuclear history of the United States, public…UnitedStatesAtomicEnergyCommission
Richard Greening Hewlett (b. 1923) is an American public historian best known for his work as the Chief Historian of the United States Atomic...
Glenn Theodore Seaborg

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

male, deceased (1999) (Ishpeming, Michigan)
fermium, National Commission on Excellence in Education, actinide series, University of California, Berkeley chancellor, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Franck Report…UnitedStatesAtomicEnergyCommission, nuclear energy
Glenn Seaborg worked his way through UCLA in a variety of ways - as stevedore, night watchman, apricot picker and linotype mechanic apprentice,...
Dixy Lee Ray

Dixy Lee Ray

female, deceased (1994)
environmentalist, nuclear power, Stanford University alumni, Stanford University, democratic party, primary election…UnitedStatesAtomicEnergyCommission, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914-January 2, 1994) was the seventeenth governor of Washington State in the United States, and the first woman to hold...
Henry Dewolf Smyth

Henry Dewolf Smyth

male, deceased (1986)
Princeton University, Atoms for Peace Award, nuclear weapons, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, UnitedStatesAtomicEnergyCommission, International Atomic Energy Agency…nuclear energy
Henry DeWolf Smyth (May 1, 1898 - September 11, 1986) was an American physicist, diplomat, and a bureaucrat who played a number of key roles in the...
Robert Bacher

Robert Bacher

male, deceased (2004)
University of Michigan, UnitedStatesAtomicEnergyCommission, nuclear physics, nuclear, los alamos national laboratory, los alamos
Robert Fox Bacher (August 31, 1905 - November 18, 2004) was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Bacher...
John McCone

John McCone

male, deceased (1991)
cia, Republican, IRBM, National Security Council, University of California, Berkeley, UnitedStatesAtomicEnergyCommission…U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 - February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central...
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss

Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss

male, deceased (1974)
chairman, administrator, secretary of commerce, United States Secretary of Commerce, j. robert oppenheimer, dwight eisenhower…UnitedStatesAtomicEnergyCommission, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (b. January 31, 1896, Charleston, West Virginia - d. January 21, 1974, Brandy Station, Virginia) was a wealthy...
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.

male, 94 years old
Harvard University, Hans G. Dehmelt, separated oscillatory field method, IEEE Medal of Honor recipient, Erdős number 3, National Medal of Science recipient…UnitedStatesAtomicEnergyCommission, atomic clock
Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. (born August 27, 1915, in Washington, DC) is an American physicist. A physics professor at Harvard University since 1947,...