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People of the Manhattan Project (details below)

Scroll down to see each of these images individually.  Their animation is original to the History Division, now Office of History and Heritage Resources, 2003.  The images are: 

  1. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Ernest Lawrence (courtesy 
    the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); 
  2. Hanford, Washington, workers sending money home (reproduced from the photo insert in F. G. Gosling, The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb (Washington: History Division, Department of Energy, October 2001)); 
  3. Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves at the Trinity Site, September 1945 (reproduced from the cover of the History Division, now Office of History and Heritage Resources, publication: The Signature Facilities of the Manhattan Project (Washington: History Division, Department of Energy, 2001)); 
  4. A WAC detachment marching at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, June 1945 (courtesy the Army Corps of Engineers; it is reprinted in Rachel Fermi and Esther Samra, Picturing the Bomb: Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1995), 40); 
  5. Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Compton, Vannevar Bush, and James Conant, Berkeley, California, March 1940 (click here for more information on this photograph);
  6. Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard (courtesy the Federation of American Scientists).

Oppenheimer, Fermi, and Lawrence

Hanford workers sending money home.

Oppenheimer and Groves at the Trinity site, September 1945

WAC detachment at Oak Ridge, June 1945

Lawrence, Compton, Bush, and Conant, Berkeley, March 1940

 

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