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2 days ago · Manhattan District The Trinity test of the Manhattan Project on 16 July 1945 was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Active 1942–1946 Disbanded 15 August 1947 Country United States United Kingdom Canada Branch U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Garrison/HQ Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S. Anniversaries 13 August 1942 Engagements Allied invasion of Italy Allied invasion of France Allied invasion of ...
- 1942–1946
- Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.
May 2, 2024 · Its biggest innovation—designed by the former Tufts roommates Vannevar Bush, E1913, G1913, H32 (future Raytheon cofounder and presidential science adviser), and Laurence K. Marshall, A1911 (future chairman of Raytheon), along with the Harvard physicist Charles G. Smith (Raytheon’s other future cofounder)—was a vacuum tube that allowed ...
3 days ago · Some 425 people were present on the weekend of the Trinity test. Observers included Vannevar Bush, James Chadwick, James B. Conant, Thomas Farrell, Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Leslie Groves, Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Oppenheimer, Geoffrey Taylor, Richard Tolman, Edward Teller, and John von Neumann.
- July 16, 1945, (78 years ago)
- Trinity Site, New Mexico
Apr 25, 2024 · Vannevar Bush headed the OSRD (Office of Scientific Research & Development) during WWII, an office operating through extraordinary organizational leverage to generate such technological accomplishments as the proximity fuze, radar, anti-submarine tech, and yes, the atomic bomb itself by way of the storied Manhattan Project.
1 day ago · On November 17, 1944, President Roosevelt wrote a letter to Vannevar Bush, then the Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, in which he said: The Office “represents a unique experiment of team-work and cooperation in coordinating scientific research and applying existing scientific knowledge to the solution of the technical problems paramount in war.”
5 days ago · Congratulations to Prof. Elchanan Mossel, a distinguished Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow from the class of 2019. Prof. Mossel, a faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has achieved an extraordinary milestone by being selected as one of the 250 exceptional individuals elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2024.
Apr 30, 2024 · There, among other duties, he worked with the noted researcher Vannevar Bush, helping to set up differential equations on Bush’s differential analyzer. A summer internship at American Telephone and Telegraph’s Bell Laboratories in New York City in 1937 inspired much of Shannon’s subsequent research interests.
