The Manhattan Project: Making The Atomic Bomb -

Led the team that achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago in 1942.

The project was a monumental collaboration between military organization and scientific research. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb

While not a project member, his 1939 letter to President Roosevelt warning of German nuclear potential served as the project’s initial catalyst. 2. Major Research and Production Sites Led the team that achieved the first controlled,

The brilliant theoretical physicist who served as the scientific director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bombs were actually designed. where the bombs were actually designed.