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Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (Greek: Νικόλαος Μητρόπουλος; June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a Greek-American physicist. Metropolis received his BSc (1937) and PhD in physics (1941, with Robert Mulliken) at the University of Chicago.
Learn about Nicholas Metropolis, a nuclear scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project, developed the Monte Carlo method and the MANIAC computer, and taught at the University of Chicago and Los Alamos. See his biography, timeline, and contributions to science and engineering.
Nick was a staff member of the atomic-bomb project at Columbia University in 1942 and returned to Chicago during 1942-1943 to work on the university's metallurgy project. He was at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project in 1943.
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Oct 23, 1999 · Dr. Nicholas C. Metropolis, a mathematician who was one of the initial team of scientists involved with the Manhattan Project and who later became a pioneer in computer science, died last Sunday...
Metropolis, Nicholas Constantine (1915-1999) Greek-American mathematician who grew up in Chicago and earned his bachelor's degree (1936) and doctorate (1941) in experimental physics from the University of Chicago.
Sep 12, 1993 · Nicholas Metropolis arrived in Los Alamos in 1943. Shortly after receiving his PhD in physics from the University of Chicago, Metropolis was recruited by J. Robert Oppenheimer to lead efforts in computational research for the bomb.
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Metropolis, the first director of computing services at Los Alamos National Laboratory, discusses John von Neumann's work in computing.
