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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 an American physicist. He was recruited by J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the Manhattan Project. Serber was tasked with explaining the basic principles and goals of the project to all incoming scientific staff.
Jun 2, 1997 · 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...
Jul 14, 2023 · Robert Serber, a physicist from Philadelphia, became a key figure in the Manhattan Project thanks to his association with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Serber developed and named the atomic bombs that...
Jun 3, 1997 · Robert Serber, 88, one of the intellectual leaders of the World War II crash program that developed the atomic bomb, died June 1 at his home in New York.
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.
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.
Jun 1, 1997 · Knowing the material thoroughly, Robert Serber (1909-1997) literally wrote the book on everything that incoming scientific staff at the secret Los Alamos Laboratory needed to know about the lab’s program to build the atomic bombs.
Sep 1, 2001 · Robert Serber (1909–1997), an American-born and -educated theoretical physicist, belonged to what might be described, respectfully, as the second tier of important U.S. physicists in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
SERBER, ROBERT (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 March 1909; d. New York, New York, 1 June 1997), nuclear and particle physics. Serber’s long and distinguished career will probably be best remembered for the important contributions he made in producing the world’s first nuclear weapons.
