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Born December 10, 1906 • Kitchener • Canada
Died February 14, 2000 (aged 93) • Clearwater • Florida
Subjects Of Study nuclear energy • energy conversion
Role In Manhattan Project
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
Hyman G. Rickover
Hyman G. Rickover
United States admiral
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
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William Penney, Baron Penney
British physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-born American scientist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Emilio Segrè
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
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William Webster Hansen
American physicist
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Elihu Thomson
American electrical engineer and inventor
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John E.W. Keely
American inventor
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist
Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American physicist
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William Vickrey
American economist
Garand, John C.
John C. Garand
American engineer
James Douglas, oil painting by E.W. Grier, 19th century; in a private collection
James Douglas
American engineer
Architect of India's nuclear program
Homi Bhabha
Indian physicist