By HEATHER MCCLENAHAN
Los Alamos Historical Society Stan Ulam may be one of the least known of the leading Manhattan Project scientists. A Polish-born mathematician, he was working as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, when he received a letter from physicist Hans Bethe, inviting him to join a wartime project near Santa Fe, NM. He would spend most of the rest of his career working on complex nuclear problems or mathematical issues related to them, such as high-capacity computing. As part of the Manhattan Project, Ulam, with John von Neumann and others, made the necessary mathematical calculations for the development of the “Fat Man” implosion weapon.
0 Comments
|
AboutThese articles are written by the Los Alamos Historical Society Staff. Many of these articles were originally published by the Categories
All
Archives
January 2021
|