Biographies

Below are brief biographies of most of the key players of the Atomic Age.


Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
Norris Bradbury
James Chadwick
Arthur Compton
Marie Curie
Pierre Curie
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
Otto Frisch
Klaus Fuchs
General Leslie Groves
Otto Hahn
Werner Heisenberg
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
A. Q. Kahn
Herman Kahn
George Kistiakowsky
Igor Kurchatov
Ernest O. Lawrence
Lise Meitner
Philip Morrison
J. Robert Oppenheimer
William "Deke" Parsons
Rudolph Peierls
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Ernest Rutherford
Andrei Sakharov
Glenn Seaborg
Emilio Segré
Robert Serber
Fritz Strassmann
Leo Szilard
Edward Teller
J.J. Thomson
Brig. Gen Paul Tibbets
Stanislaw Ulam
John von Neumann
Victor Weisskopf
Eugene Wigner
Robert Wilson
Herbert York