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Los Alamos, New Mexico. Los Alamos (Spanish: Los Álamos, meaning The Cottonwoods) is a census-designated place in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States, that is recognized as one of the development and creation places of the atomic bomb —the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II.
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 important discipline.
Los Alamos Ranch School. Los Alamos Ranch School was a private ranch school for boys in the northeast corner of Sandoval County, New Mexico (since 1949, within Los Alamos County), U.S., founded in 1917 near San Ildefonso Pueblo. During World War II, the school was bought and converted into the secret nuclear research campus for Project Y, which ...
Built. 1948. Architect. W.C. Kruger and Associates. NRHP reference No. 15000493 [1] Added to NRHP. August 3, 2015. 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.
Same-sex marriage became legally recognized statewide in New Mexico through a ruling of the New Mexico Supreme Court on December 19, 2013, requiring county clerks to issue marriage licenses to all qualified couples regardless of gender.
Edith Warner. Edith Warner (1893–1951 [1]), 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.
Los Alamos County (English: "The Poplars" or "Cottonwoods"; Spanish: Condado de Los Álamos) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico.As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,419. [1]
In late 1945, Harris Mayer was a student of Maria Goeppert-Mayer (wife of chemist Joseph Edward Mayer and neither of whom had any relation to Harris). Edward Teller invited Maria Goeppert-Mayer and two of her students (Boris Jacobsohn and Harris Mayer) to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. [6]