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  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    December 21, 1965 [4] Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the American southwest. Best known for its central role in helping develop the ...

  3. Norris Bradbury - Wikipedia

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    Norris Edwin Bradbury (May 30, 1909 – August 20, 1997), was an American physicist who served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project during World War II.

  4. John L. Sarrao - Wikipedia

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    Doctoral advisor. W. Gilbert Clark. John Louis Sarrao (born February 1, 1967) [citation needed] is an American physicist. He was the deputy director for science, technology, and engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory. [1] [2] As of 2 October 2023, he became the sixth director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory [3]

  5. Los Alamos, California - Wikipedia

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    Los Alamos, California. /  34.74194°N 120.27528°W  / 34.74194; -120.27528. Los Alamos ( Spanish: Los Álamos, meaning The Cottonwoods) is an unincorporated community in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Located in the Los Alamos Valley, the town of Los Alamos is considered to be a part of the Santa Ynez Valley community.

  6. J. Robert Oppenheimer - Wikipedia

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    J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈ ɒ p ən h aɪ m ər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist.He was director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II and is often called the "father of the atomic bomb".

  7. Richard Slansky - Wikipedia

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    Richard C. Slansky (3 April 1940 – 16 January 1998) was an American theoretical physicist . Slansky received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and his PhD under Elliot Leader from the University of California, Berkeley. As a post-doc he was at Caltech and then for five years at Yale University, before he joined in 1974 the newly ...

  8. Robert Wertheim - Wikipedia

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    In 2000, on behalf of the University of California, he was the lead of a review of Los Alamos National Laboratory after hard drives temporarily went missing. In 2005, the alumni association of the Naval Academy awarded him their Distinguished Graduate Award Medal.

  9. Los Alamos High School - Wikipedia

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    Website. laschools .net /lahs. Los Alamos High School ( LAHS) is the public high school in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. The school opened in 1946, and was originally supported by the Atomic Energy Commission. It has been academically recognized by Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and the New Mexico Public Education Department.