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3 days ago · Following the death of her husband, Kitty decided to move-in with long-time family friend Robert Serber, and the two planned a round-the-world sailing trip in 1972. However, shortly after embarking in October of that year, Kitty became seriously ill and passed away in Panama City, Panama due to a pulmonary embolism.
2 days ago · Julius Robert Oppenheimer, généralement appelé Robert Oppenheimer voire J. Robert Oppenheimer, est un physicien américain, né le 22 avril 1904 à New York et mort le 18 février 1967 à Princeton . Il s'est distingué en physique théorique puis comme directeur scientifique du projet Manhattan.
4 days ago · Isidor Isaac Rabi was an American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 for his invention (in 1937) of the atomic and molecular beam magnetic resonance method of observing atomic spectra.
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4 days ago · Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues.
1 day ago · McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.
1 day ago · John Bardeen ForMemRS / b ɑːr ˈ d iː n /; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer.He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of ...
5 days ago · George E. Pake (April 1, 1924 – March 4, 2004) was a physicist and research executive primarily known for helping found Xerox PARC . Early life. Pake was raised in Kent, Ohio. [1] . His father was an English instructor at Kent State University. [2] : 3 His mother was a schoolteacher. [citation needed]
