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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...
Robert Serber (1909-1997) was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and explained its goals to new recruits. He also developed the hydrodynamics theory, code-named the bombs, and visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the war.
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.
The Los Alamos Primer is a printed version of the first five lectures on the principles of nuclear weapons given to new arrivals at the top-secret Los Alamos laboratory during the Manhattan Project. The five lectures were given by physicist Robert Serber in April 1943. The notes from the lectures which became the Primer were written by Edward ...
Robert Serber was born on March 14, 1909, in Philadelphia, into a relatively comfortable Jewish family. On the advice of his uncle who was chief engineer at the Atlantic Refining Company, he enrolled in 1926 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and majored in engineering physics.
Jun 5, 1997 · Robert Serber, who helped to create the atomic bomb, died on June 1st, aged 88. Jun 5th 1997 |. AT THE start of his lecture, Robert Serber said, “The object of the project is to produce a...
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