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A Conversation with Robert F. Christy – Part I

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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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  • 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
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