Biographies

Below are brief biographies of most of the key players of the Manhattan Project and the dropping of the atomic bomb.

• Bethe, Hans
• Bradbury, Norris
• Compton, Arthur
• Fermi, Enrico
• Feynman, Richard
• Groves, General Leslie
• Kistiakowsky, George
• Lawrence, Ernest O.
• Oppenheimer, J. Robert
• William "Deke" Parsons, Rear Admiral
• Rabi, Isidor Isaac
• Seaborg, Glenn
• Segré, Emilio
• Serber, Robert
• Szilard, Leo
• Teller, Edward
• Tibbets, Colonel Paul
• Weisskopf, Victor
• Wigner, Eugene
• Wilson, Robert

Contents

• The Story of Hiroshima
• The Story of Nagasaki
• Photographs
• Historical Documents
• Selected Biographies
• Movies
• Maps
• Bibliography
• Other Online Sources
• About This Site

Related Reading

The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes