Robert Serber
Robert Serber · Science & Medicine
Physicist; Manhattan Project theorist ('The Los Alamos Primer')
1909, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — 1997, New York City, USA
United States
Robert Serber is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; Manhattan Project theorist ('The Los Alamos Primer')
Robert Serber was an American theoretical physicist and a central figure of the Manhattan Project, a close collaborator of Robert Oppenheimer. He wrote 'The Los Alamos Primer', the lectures that introduced new arrivals to the physics of the atomic bomb, and coined the names 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'. He was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia.
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Physicist; Manhattan Project theorist ('The Los Alamos Primer')
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