A Conversation with Robert F. Christy Part I
Abstract
Robert F. Christy, Institute Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, recalls his childhood in British Columbia; his undergraduate years at the University of British Columbia; his graduate work with J. Robert Oppenheimer at Berkeley; and his work on the Manhattan Project, first with Enrico Fermi at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago and then as a member of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos.
- Publication:
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Physics in Perspective
- Pub Date:
- September 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s00016-006-0270-x
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhP.....8..282L
- Keywords:
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- Herbert Anderson;
- Hans A. Bethe;
- Enrico Fermi;
- Richard P. Feynman;
- William A. Fowler;
- Joseph Keller;
- Shuichi Kusaka;
- Willis Lamb;
- Charles Lauritsen;
- Tommy Lauritsen;
- Ernest O. Lawrence;
- John Manley;
- Edwin McMillan;
- Philip Morrison;
- J. Robert Oppenheimer;
- Julian Schwinger;
- Robert Serber;
- Emilio Segré
- Richard C. Tolman;
- John von Neumann;
- Eugene Wigner;
- Los Alamos;
- Manhattan Project;
- mesons;
- nuclear reactors