... structure and quantum mechanics, Edward Teller, Otto Frisch and others in Copenhagen. Enrico Fermi who discovered radioactivity induced by slow neutrons and Emilio Segre in Italy. Hans Bethe, Ernest O. Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton, and John Dunning in the United States, Frederic Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot in France, and Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Franz Strassman in Germany. (1) Each of these ... study the potential military use of fission. On September 23,1942 Leslie Groves was put into responsibility of the Manhattan Project. From the list of atomic scientists Lesl...

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... . These were created to produce material that would fuel the bomb and workers were involved in the research and development of the bomb operate an early graphite reactor. Robert Oppenheimer was the chief scientist. Robert and other top scientists were working on the designs and constructions of the atomic bombs at Los Alamos in New Mexico. Those who knew about the Project called ... ...

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... bomb. FDR was very concerned and got the smartest people he could find to make one an atomic bomb for the United States. The father of the Manhattan Project was Robert Oppenheimer. He is sometimes referred to as "The Father of the bomb." He was the main person involved in the making of the bomb. He was the leader of the weapons ... ...

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