Results for “Manhattan Project”
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner was the Austrian-Swedish physicist who, in 1938, interpreted the first nuclear-fission experiments, unlocking the door to nuclear power and weapons yet was excluded from the 1944 Nobel Prize awarded to her collaborator.
PeopleEnrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was the Italian-American “architect of the nuclear age” who built the world’s first nuclear reactor, co-invented the atomic bomb, and earned the 1938 Nobel Prize for discovering slow-neutron reactions that unlocked controlled fission.
PeopleJohn Von Neumann
John von Neumann (1903-1957) was the archetype of the 20th-century scientific polymath, whose ideas shaped quantum mechanics, economics, computing, nuclear engineering and the very architecture of modern digital life.
ScienceNuclear Fission
Nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which an atomic nucleus splits into smaller nuclei, releasing immense energy, neutrons, and gamma radiation.
PeopleRobert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer was the American theoretical physicist who directed the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory and became known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for leading the development of the first nuclear weapons that ended World War II.