Nervous in the service, or 'up and atom', [194-].

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Nervous in the service, or 'up and atom', [194-].

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Jacob, a WAC corporal during World War II, describes her assignment to the Los Alamos, New Mexico, division of the Manhattan Project in 1944, while it was developing the atomic bomb; her impressions of nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos laboratory; measures taken to protect the project's secrecy; work schedules and personnel relationships; and the emotional effects of the work. Typescript.

11 p.

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

Jacob, Frances

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Manhattan Project (U.S.)

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