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Robert Serber (March 14, 1909 – June 1, 1997) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic principles and goals of the project were printed and supplied to all incoming scientific staff, and became known as The Los Alamos Primer.
Robert Serber, a theoretical physicist who was the intellectual midwife at the birth of the atomic bomb and helped shape particle physics research for decades, died on Sunday at his home on the...
A mathematical technique he developed with Robert Wilson, deemed the Serber-Wilson method, was the primary means for performing criticality calculations for nuclear weaponsduring the war, and for some years afterward.
While at Los Alamos, Serber developed the first good theory of bomb disassembly hydrodynamics. He also created the code-names for all three bomb designs–“Little Boy” (uranium gun), “Thin Man” (plutonium gun), and “Fat Man” (plutonium implosion)–based on their design shapes.
Robert Serber. (1909 - 1997) Robert Serber was born on March 14, 1909, in Philadelphia. He earned a doctorate in physics at the University of Wisconsin in 1934, then moved to the University of California, Berkeley, to work with J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Sep 1, 2001 · Robert Serber (1909–1997), an American-born and -educated theoretical physicist, belonged to what might be described, respectfully, as the second tier of important U.S. physicists in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
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Jun 3, 1997 · Robert Serber, a theoretical physicist who was the intellectual midwife at the birth of the atomic bomb and helped shape particle physics research for decades, died on Sunday at his home in...
