Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant theoretical physicist who was a professor at Berkeley and at Caltech. ... The frontline for research and construction was the Los Alamos Laboratory, formerly a boy's ranch school that was purchased by Oppenheimer. After continuing research in Uranium isotope separation, Oppenheimer was beginning to make progress, using Liquid Thermal Diffusion as a means to separate the Uranium 235 isotope from the rest of a sample of Uranium. ... Eventually, through about two months of construction at the Jornado del Muerto desert in central New Mexico, codenamed "Trini...

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Einstein also helped in the advancement of modern warfare, by helping Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi in the creation of the atomic bomb. ... This was first noted in 1827 by the English botanist Robert Brown. ...

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The worlds of marble and wood left me feeling stranded halfway through a long tunnel. Trying to grasp the concepts of higher dimensions left me feeling more like a coy out of water than one still trapped in the pond. The concepts discussed in "Part 1: Entering the Fifth Dimension,"" in Hyperspace, by Michio Kaku, left me with more questions than answers. The history and theories found in Introducing Quantum Theoy, by J. P. ...

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