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Also Known As atom bomb • fission bomb

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Vannevar Bush with Differential Analyzer
Vannevar Bush
American engineer
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Theodore Hall
American-born physicist and spy
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Klaus Fuchs
German physicist and spy
Karl Taylor Compton
American physicist
William Penney, Baron Penney
British physicist
Yves-André Rocard
French mathematician and physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani scientist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
Stanislaw Ulam
American scientist
Elda Emma Anderson
American physicist
William Penney
British scientist

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