Elspeth G. Bobbs
Elspeth G. Bobbs was born in 1920 in Devonshire County, England. During World War II she came to the United States with her parents. Shortly after, she moved to Santa Fe for work. Here she met and...
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Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation. It is October 12, 2017, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am with Elspeth Bobbs, who has some very interesting stories. But first, I want Elspeth to...
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Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was a British physicist and mathematician, and later, a Manhattan Project scientist. Taylor was born in St. John’s Wood, London, and has been described as one of the most...
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Pierre Victor Auger was born in Paris on May 14, 1899. He was a French physicist, whose work focused on atomic, cosmic ray, and nuclear physicists. In 1922, he joined the Chemistry Lab at the...
View ArticleAlan Nunn May
Nunn May was a British physicist. He was one of the first Cold War era spies for the Soviet Union, and revealed information about the Manhattan Project. Alan Nunn May was born on May 2, 1911 in Kings...
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Philippe Halban is a European cell biologist. He received his PhD from the University of Oxford and then pursued an academic career in diabetes research at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and...
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Philippe Halban is a European biologist. His father, Hans Halban, was an Austrian-Jewish physicist who conducted nuclear research with Frédéric Joliot-Curie in France before World War II and later for...
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Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly, and this is Thursday, December 14, 2017. I’m in Geneva, Switzerland, with Philippe Halban. My first question is for you to tell us your full name and spell it. Philippe...
View ArticleHomi J. Bhabha
Homi Jenhagir Bhabha (1909-1966) was an Indian physicist who is often considered the father of the Indian nuclear program. Bhabha was born to a wealthy family in Mumbai. In 1927, he went to England at...
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Raja Ramanna (1926-2004) was an Indian physicist. Ramanna was born in Tumkur in Karnataka State. He studied science at Madras Christian College before moving to London, where he completed a Ph.D. in...
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