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Charlotte Serber (née Leof; July 26, 1911 – May 22, 1967) was an American journalist, statistician and librarian. She was the librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, and the laboratory's only female group leader.
Jun 23, 2017 · But if library work was among the most tedious on the Hill, the award for the most unenviable job likely belonged to its head librarian: Charlotte Serber, a University of Pennsylvania graduate,...
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Charlotte Serber (1911-1967) was the Los Alamos site librarian and only female group leader of the Manhattan Project. Her husband Robert Serber was an assistant to J. Robert Oppenheimer, and in 1942, prior to their move to Los Alamos, the two lived in Berkeley, California, in the garage over Robert….
Mar 29, 2022 · March 29, 2022. In Los Alamos National Laboratory’s earliest days, J. Robert Oppenheimer hand-picked Charlotte Serber for what he considered one of the most critical positions: to oversee the wartime technical library. Her job wasn't easy.
Oct 10, 2023 · As the only female group leader at the Lab during the Manhattan Project, Charlotte Serber was chosen by Oppenheimer to manage Project Y's technical library.
Sep 23, 2015 · Project head J. Robert Oppenheimer hired Charlotte Serber, the wife of a physicist, to head up the library in the hopes that, as a non-professional, she’d prove more thrifty and inventive than a career librarian.
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Sep 1, 2001 · Robert Serber, with Charlotte, went to Los Alamos in 1943 as one of Oppenheimer's first recruits for the secret Mesa Laboratory, and there in 1943 gave the influential classified lectures on what was then understood of A-bomb physics, which were much later published as The Los Alamos Primer ( Serber, 1992 ).
