ORGANIZATION

See also Manhattan Project.

Official Website:
http://www.lanl.gov/

Location:
Los Alamos, NM

Founding Date:
1943

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Felix Bloch	Physicist	23-Oct-1905	10-Sep-1983	Nuclear magnetic resonance
Clyde Cowan	Physicist	6-Dec-1919	24-May-1974	Co-Discover of the neutrino
George A. Cowan	Physicist	15-Feb-1920	20-Apr-2012	Founder, Santa Fe Institute
Robert H. Ewald	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Silicon Graphics
Enrico Fermi	Physicist	29-Sep-1901	29-Nov-1954	First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Val Fitch	Physicist	10-Mar-1923	5-Feb-2015	Time not necessarily reversible
Klaus Fuchs	Spy	29-Dec-1911	28-Jan-1988	Manhattan Project scientist, spy for USSR
Murray Gell-Mann	Physicist	15-Sep-1929		Quarks and strangeness
David Greenglass	Spy	2-Mar-1922	1-Jul-2014	Gave atomic secrets to Julius Rosenberg
Leslie R. Groves	Military	17-Aug-1896	13-Jul-1970	Director of the Manhattan Project
Dudley R. Herschbach	Chemist	18-Jun-1932		Crossed molecular beam experiments
William A. Higinbotham	Physicist	25-Oct-1910	10-Nov-1994	Physicist, Tennis for Two
Donald M. Kerr	Government	c. 1941		Deputy Director, US National Intelligence
Jay Keyworth	Physicist	c. 1939		Science advisor to Reagan
Wen Ho Lee	Victim	21-Dec-1939		Allegedly spied for China
John M. Palms	Physicist	6-Jun-1935		President, University of South Carolina, 1991-2002
Frederick Reines	Physicist	16-Mar-1918	26-Aug-1998	Co-Discover of the neutrino
Emilio Segrè	Physicist	30-Jan-1905	22-Apr-1989	Co-Discoverer of the antiproton
Maurice M. Shapiro	Physicist	13-Nov-1915	27-Feb-2008	Composition and origin of cosmic rays
Tsutomu Shimomura	Physicist	23-Oct-1964		Helped catch Kevin Mitnick
Louis Slotin	Physicist	1-Dec-1910	30-May-1946	Died tickling the dragon's tail
Henry Taube	Chemist	30-Nov-1915	16-Nov-2005	Mechanisms of electron transfer
John von Neumann	Mathematician	28-Dec-1903	8-Feb-1957	Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory

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