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Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
Stanisław Ulam
Polish-American mathematician
Bill Anders
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–2024)
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)
Leslie Groves
United States Army Corps of Engineers officer (1896–1970)
Myrtle Bachelder
American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer (1908–1997)
Seth Neddermeyer
American physicist (1907–1988)
Samuel T. Cohen
American physicist (1921–2010)
William Penney, Baron Penney
English mathematician and physicist (1909-1991)
Elda Emma Anderson
American physicist (1899-1961)
Kenneth Nichols
United States Army officer and engineer
James C. Marshall
US Army general and engineer
Riazuddin
Pakistani nuclear physicist (1930–2013)
Franklin Matthias
American nuclear engineer (1908–1993)
David L. Hill
American physicist (1919–2008)
Joseph O. Hirschfelder
American physicist (1911–1990)
Stirling Colgate
American physicist (1925–2013)
Samar Mubarakmand
Pakistani physicist
Ishfaq Ahmad
Nuclear physicist
Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry
Pakistani physicist (1903–1988)
Frederick J. Clarke
United States general (1915-2002)
Ghulam Dastagir Alam
physicist
Arkady Brish
Soviet physicist (1917-2016)