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Born February 11, 1898 • Hungary
Died May 30, 1964 (aged 66) • California
Subjects Of Study isotopic fractionation • nuclear chain reaction
Role In Manhattan Project
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Willard Frank Libby
American chemist
Theodore Hall
American-born physicist and spy
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Emilio Segrè.
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
William Webster Hansen
American physicist
Gordon Gould
American physicist
James Franck
James Franck
German physicist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
Gregory Breit
American physicist
Fitch, Val Logsdon
Val Logsdon Fitch
American physicist
Mulliken, 1966
Robert Sanderson Mulliken
American chemist and physicist
Karl Taylor Compton
American physicist
James Rainwater
American physicist
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain
American physicist

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