Edward Teller

Edward Teller

male, deceased (2003)
physicist, thermonuclear, theoretical physics, World War II, nuclear fusion, scientist…los alamos national laboratory, losalamos
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name "Teller Ede") (January 15 1908 - September 9 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical...
Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe

male, deceased (2005)
physicist, 1906-2005, From Strasbourg, nuclear weapon design, From Ithaca, New York, University of Munich alumni…losalamos, los alamos national laboratory
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...
Philip Morrison

Philip Morrison

male, deceased (2005)
Cornell University faculty, losalamos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, professor, physicist, theoretical physics…los alamos national laboratory
Philip Morrison, (born 7 November 1915 in Somerville, New Jersey - died 22 April 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was Institute Professor,...
Ruth Greenglass

Ruth Greenglass

female, 84 years old
Manhattan Project, Ruth Printz, Julius Rosenberg, Young communist league, julius and ethel rosenberg, los alamos national laboratory…losalamos
Ruth Printz was born in 1925 in New York City, and grew up in the same neighborhood as her future husband, David Greenglass. Although they were...
Louis Slotin

Louis Slotin

male, deceased (1946) (Los Alamos, United States)
physicist, Chemist, Manhattan Project, criticality accident, Canadian, University of Manitoba alumni…los alamos national laboratory, losalamos
Louis Slotin was a Canadian physicist/chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project. He died of massive radiation poisoning after a criticality...
Helen Zia

Helen Zia

female, 57 years old
Magazine editor, Princeton University, A Magazine, My Country Versus Me, American, A. Magazine…losalamos, los alamos national laboratory, alamos
Helen Zia (1952 -) is an American journalist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for decades....
Blue Corn

Blue Corn

female, deceased (1999)
Santa Fe, World War II, Native American, artist, Beverly Hills, Silversmith…losalamos
Blue Corn, also known as Crucita Calabaza, was a Native American potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States. She became famous for...
Owen Chamberlain

Owen Chamberlain

male, deceased (2006)
Death from Parkinson's Disease, losalamos, physicist, theoretical physics, World War II, Dartmouth College alumni
Owen Chamberlain was a prominent American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1959 with his collaborator Emilio Segrè for their d...

George Cowan

male
World War II, physical chemistry, Santa Fe Institute, Carnegie Mellon University alumni, los alamos national laboratory, losalamos
George Cowan was an American physical chemist. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, he worked on the top secret Manhattan Project at Los...
Robert Bacher

Robert Bacher

male, deceased (2004)
University of Michigan, United States Atomic Energy Commission, nuclear physics, nuclear, los alamos national laboratory, losalamos
Robert Fox Bacher (August 31, 1905 - November 18, 2004) was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Bacher...