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Robert Serber (March 14, 1909 – June 1, 1997) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic principles and goals of the project were printed and supplied to all incoming scientific staff, and became known as The Los Alamos Primer.
Robert Serber (1909-1997) was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and explained its goals to new recruits. He also developed the hydrodynamics theory, code-named the bombs, and visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the war.
Robert Serber, a theoretical physicist who was the intellectual midwife at the birth of the atomic bomb and helped shape particle physics research for decades, died on Sunday at his home on the...
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Robert Serber. (1909 - 1997) Robert Serber was born on March 14, 1909, in Philadelphia. He earned a doctorate in physics at the University of Wisconsin in 1934, then moved to the University of California, Berkeley, to work with J. Robert Oppenheimer. He later became an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, until 1941, when ...
Robert Serber was born on March 14, 1909, in Philadelphia, into a relatively comfortable Jewish family. On the advice of his uncle who was chief engineer at the Atlantic Refining Company, he enrolled in 1926 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and majored in engineering physics.
Sep 12, 1994 · His lectures were known as the “Los Alamos Primer.”. In this interview with Richard Rhodes, he discusses the decision to develop a hydrogen bomb. Serber also recalls Oppenheimer’s security hearing, the Chevalier conversation, and how the hearing changed Oppenheimer.
