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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.
Charlotte Serber died in 1967. Dr. Serber is survived by the former Fiona St. Clair, whom he married in 1979, and by two sons, Zachariah and William, who are both studying in Edinburgh.
Charlotte Serber passed away in 1967. For more information on Charlotte Serber and her husband Robert, please see the following references and sources: Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project
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,...
- Michael Waters
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.
Serber's first wife, Charlotte, who died in 1967, was appointed by Oppenheimer to head Los Alamos' library, making her the only female section leader at wartime Los Alamos.
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He developed a mathematical method with Robert Wilson, called the Serber-Wilson method, that was the primary means for performing criticality calculations for the bomb. Oppenheimer appointed Charlotte Serber as head of the Library Division. She was the only female division leader at the lab.
