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  2. Francis H. Harlow - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Edith Warner - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Los Alamos, New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Demon core - Wikipedia

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    A re-creation of the experiment involved in the 1945 incident. The sphere of plutonium is surrounded by tungsten carbide blocks acting as neutron reflectors.. The demon core was a sphere of plutonium that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic bomb.

  6. Priscilla Duffield - Wikipedia

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    Priscilla Duffield. Priscilla Duffield (April 8, 1918 – July 21, 2009, née Greene) worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. She was secretary to Ernest O. Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory, and to J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Los Alamos Laboratory. After the war she was executive assistant to directors of Scripps Institute of ...

  7. Ed Grothus - Wikipedia

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    Ed Grothus. Edward Bernard Grothus (June 28, 1923 – February 12, 2009) was an American machinist and technician at the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the 1950s and 1960s. [1] In later life he became the owner of a surplus store which he used as a base for peace and anti-nuclear activism. [2]

  8. Dorothy McKibbin - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy McKibbin (December 12, 1897 – December 17, 1985; née Scarritt) worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. She ran the project's office at 109 East Palace Avenue in Santa Fe, through which staff moving to the Los Alamos Laboratory had to pass through to obtain security credentials and directions to their new workplace.

  9. Frank Oppenheimer - Wikipedia

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    Frank Oppenheimer. Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (14 August 1912 – 3 February 1985) was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The younger brother of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Oppenheimer conducted research on ...

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