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Seth Henry Neddermeyer (September 16, 1907 – January 29, 1988) was an American physicist who co-discovered the muon, and later championed the implosion-type nuclear weapon while working on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II .
Jul 18, 2023 · Their ranks eventually included Teller, Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman, Seth Neddermeyer, Robert Serber, Kenneth Bainbridge, Enrico Fermi and many others.
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Jul 12, 2023 · Let’s go one by one down the 70-person cast list of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer,’ from Cillian Murphy through Florence Pugh’s Jean Tatlock, until we find the most likely suspects.
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This is Charles Weiner talking to Professor Seth Neddermeyer in his office at the University of Washington in Seattle. Since we have limited time, what I'd like to do is to pick you up in your college days with a few preliminary questions.
Abstract An interview in May 1984 with Seth Neddermeyer, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Washington, in Seattle. After receiving a BA from Stanford in 1929, Dr. Neddermeyer took his PhD at Caltech in 1935 with Carl D. Anderson.
Seth Neddermeyer (1907-1988) was an American physicist.Neddermeyer was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project by J. Robert Oppenheimer from the National Bureau of Standards. He proposed using an implosion method for the bomb that would use powerful explosives to compress a core of radioactive plutonium to a critical mass.…
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Early Implosion Work. Parsons assigned implosion studies a low priority and placed the emphasis on the more familiar artillery method. Consequently, Seth H. Neddermeyer performed his early implosion tests in relative obscurity.
