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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.
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.
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...
Robert serber (elected to the nas in 1952) was one of the leading theorists during the golden age of U.s. physics. He entered graduate school in 19 0 before such key discoveries as the neutron, positron, and deuteron and prior to the development of the principal tool of nuclear and high-energy physics, the particle accelerator.
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.
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.
Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1996 November 26. Discusses his early career and his relationship with Oppenheimer, his work at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb, and later, the development of the hydrogen bomb.
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.
Jun 5, 1997 · Robert Serber, who helped to create the atomic bomb, died on June 1st, aged 88. Jun 5th 1997 |. AT THE start of his lecture, Robert Serber said, “The object of the project is to produce a...
