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Hans Bethe (1906 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bethe/11 Mar 2026: He was convinced to participate in a summer study organized by J Robert Oppenheimer in 1942 which led to the creation of Los Alamos Laboratory in 1943 with Hans as head ... H A Bethe, Three Tributes to J Robert Oppenheimer, pamphlet published by the
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Ulam books - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Ulam_books/5 Aug 2024: Stanisław Ulam wrote a number of books all of which ran to several editions and reprintings. We list below first editions of Ulam's books and a selection of some further editions and reprintings. For each we give details such as extracts from
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Jeff Miller's postage stamps - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/stamps/11 Aug 2026: bohr_niels19 (with Oppenheimer). Issued by Mozambique in 2013 bohr_niels13. ... BOYLE, Robert Issued by Ireland in 1981 boyle1.
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Black holes - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Black_Holes/7 Mar 2023: Moreover, just as Chandrasekhar had predicted an upper limit for white dwarfs, 1939 saw a paper in Physical Review by American theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer and his graduate student at ... However, Einstein had not even read
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Andre Weil - Times obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Weil/7 Mar 2023: Robert Oppenheimer, John von Neumann and Kurt Godel. His sister Simone, the renowned mystic and philosopher, active in the French Resistance, died in 1943.
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sci_hi PDF (251k)
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/schwinger_sh.pdf14 Dec 2025: Robert Oppenheimer,[4] and in 1941 was appointed to a position at Purdue University. ... 4] The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer, SciHi Blog, April 22, 2017. •
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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers © 2007 Springer Zwicky,… PDF (125k)
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BEA/zwicky_bea.pdf28 Feb 2026: Following a three-year period as an assistant at ETH Zurich, Zwicky moved in 1925 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) at the invitation of its president, Robert Millikan, receiving ... The Russian theoretical physicist Lev Landau also
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Stanislaw Ulam PDF (481k)
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/ulam.pdf1 May 2024: He then received an offer signed by HANS BETHE (on behalf of ROBERT OPPENHEIMER) to work on "an unspecified project" which had to do with, among other things, the "physics of
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Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dirac/7 Aug 2026: Following the award of the degree he went to Copenhagen to work with Niels Bohr, moving on to Göttingen in February 1927 where he interacted with Robert Oppenheimer, Max Born, James
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David Robert Bates - RAS obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Bates_RAS/6 Jul 2025: David Robert Bates has been described as probably the greatest Irish scientist of the present century. ... Robert Boyd arrived at the meeting and solemnly handed over an envelope full of confetti.