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Leslie Groves
Sign in to saveAlso known as Leslie Richard Groves, Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr., Leslie R. Groves, L. R. Groves
United States Army Corps of Engineers officer (1896–1970)
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1972-09-10
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5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,548x
- The Determination of Pore Volume and Area Distributions in Porous Substances. I. Computations from Nitrogen Isotherms
· 1951 · cited 11,974x
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,958x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,802x
- The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology
· 2008 · cited 10,755x
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Quotes
- “He's a genius. A real genius. While Lawrence is very bright, he's not a genius, just a good hard worker. Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well, not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn't know about. He doesn't know anything about sports.”
- “I think the data that went out in the case of the Rosenbergs was of minor value. I would never say that publicly. Again that is something while it is not secret, I think should be kept very quiet, because irrespective of the value of that in the overall picture, the Rosenbergs deserved to hang, and I would not like to see anything that would make people say General Groves thinks they didn’t do much damage after all.”
- “At present the best defense against the atomic bomb is to not be there when it goes off.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Leslie Richard Groves Jr. , ( 1896-08-17 ) 17 August 1896, Albany, New York , U.S.
- Died
- 13 July 1970 (1970-07-13) (aged 73), Washington, D.C., U.S.
- Place of burial
- Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia, U.S.
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Army
- Service years
- 1918–1948
- Rank
- Lieutenant General
- Unit
- Corps of Engineers
- Commands
- Armed Forces Special Weapons Project Manhattan Project
- Conflicts
- World War I Banana Wars Occupation of Nicaragua World War II
- Awards
- Army Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Merit Order of the Crown (Belgium) Companion of the Order of the Bath (United Kingdom) Medal of Merit (Nicaragua)
- Alma mater
- United States Military Academy ( BS )
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Encyclopedic overview
Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, the top secret research program that developed the atomic bomb during World War II, leading to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
The son of a U.S. Army chaplain, Groves lived at various Army posts during his childhood. In 1918, he graduated fourth in his class at the United States Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned into the United States Army Corps of Engineers. In 1929, he went to Nicaragua as part of an expedition to conduct a survey for the Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal. Following the 1931 Nicaraguan earthquake, Groves took over Managua's water supply system, for which he was awarded the Nicaraguan Presidential Medal of Merit. He attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1935 and 1936, and the Army War College in 1938 and 1939, after which he was posted to the War Department General Staff. Groves developed "a reputation as a doer, a driver, and a stickler for duty". In 1940 he became special assistant for construction to the Quartermaster General, tasked with inspecting construction sites and checking on their progress. In August 1941, he was appointed to create the gigantic office complex for the War Department's 40,000 staff that would ultimately become the Pentagon.
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