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Los Alamos is located in northern New Mexico between the Rio Grande and the eastern rim of the Valles Caldera on the Pajarito Plateau, approximately 35 mi (56 km) to the northwest of Santa Fe. The elevation at the post office is 7,320 feet (2,230 m) and total land area is 11.14 square miles (28.9 km 2 ).
Edith Warner. Edith Warner (1893–1951), also known by the nickname "The Woman at Otowi Crossing", was an American tea room owner in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who is best known for serving various scientists and military officers working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the original creation of the atomic bomb as a part of the Manhattan Project.
The town in Los Alamos was erected to stealthily develop and test the Manhattan Project, a.k.a. the atom bomb, and according to the United States Department of Energy, government officials wanted ...
The Los Alamos United States Post Office, at 199 Central Park Sq. in Los Alamos, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 as United States Post Office-Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was built in 1948, as part of a Community Center funded by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Control of the property was ...
Mar. 18—The Los Alamos-based company UbiQD came home from the Austin, Texas, festival South by Southwest with an innovation award for its quantum-dot technology used in greenhouses. SXSW handed ...
Feb. 5—Two workers suffered skin contamination in separate incidents last month at Los Alamos National Laboratory's plutonium facility, the latest in a series of worker-safety lapses at the lab.
Physics, Mathematics. Harris Louis Mayer (February 15, 1921 – September 17, 2023) was an American physicist known for his collaboration with Edward Teller and John von Neumann. [2] [3] [4] He worked on the Manhattan Project. [5] Mayer also worked on Project Orion. His work had to do with opacity, mostly in the context of atmospheric opacity ...
Francis H. Harlow. Francis Harvey Harlow (22 January 1928 – 1 July 2016) [1] was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the field of fluid dynamics. [2] He was a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Harlow is credited with establishing the science of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as an ...