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Robert F. Christy, Institute Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, recalls his childhood in British Columbia; his undergraduate years at the University of British Columbia; his graduate work with J. Robert Oppenheimer at Berkeley; and his work on the Manhattan Project, first with Enrico Fermi at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago and then as a member of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos.
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Lippincott, S. A Conversation with Robert F. Christy – Part I. Phys. perspect. 8, 282–317 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-006-0270-x
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Keywords.
- Herbert Anderson
- Hans A. Bethe
- Enrico Fermi
- Richard P. Feynman
- William A. Fowler
- Joseph Keller
- Shuichi Kusaka
- Willis Lamb
- Charles Lauritsen
- Tommy Lauritsen
- Ernest O. Lawrence
- John Manley
- Edwin McMillan
- Philip Morrison
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Julian Schwinger
- Robert Serber
- Emilio Segré
- Richard C. Tolman
- John von Neumann
- Eugene Wigner
- Los Alamos
- Manhattan Project
- mesons
- nuclear reactors