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Alvin M. Weinberg

1915 - 2006

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Alvin Martin Weinberg (; April 20, 1915 – October 18, 2006) was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term "Faustian bargain" to describe nuclear energy. A graduate of the University of Chicago, which awarded him his doctorate in mathematical biophysics in 1939, Weinberg joined the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory in September 1941. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alvin M. Weinberg is the 674th most popular physicist (up from 699th in 2019), the 7,626th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,664th in 2019) and the 145th most popular American Physicist.

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Among physicists, Alvin M. Weinberg ranks 674 out of 851. Before him are Yoshiaki Arata, Brandon Carter, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Stanley Mandelstam, Ali Javan, and Orest Khvolson. After him are Norris Bradbury, Edward Andrade, Francis Hauksbee, Lisa Randall, Ralph Kronig, and Hertha Sponer.

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Among people born in 1915, Alvin M. Weinberg ranks 208. Before him are Harry Saltzman, Zero Mostel, Carla Marangoni, Carmen Herrera, Harriet Bland, and Eugène Martin. After him are Bruno Boni, Masanori Yusa, Danuta Szaflarska, Srđan Mrkušić, O. W. Fischer, and Alice Faye. Among people deceased in 2006, Alvin M. Weinberg ranks 264. Before him are Milan Damjanović, Don Knotts, Bertil Antonsson, Eugène Martin, S. Yizhar, and Valentin Muratov. After him are Peter Osgood, Oskar Pastior, Zdravko Rajkov, Gösta Löfgren, Gene Pitney, and Vojislav Melić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alvin M. Weinberg ranks 7,628 out of 20,380. Before him are Louella Parsons (1881), Frank Norris (1870), Charles Francis Hall (1821), Stith Thompson (1885), Alan Hovhaness (1911), and Martin Klebba (1969). After him are Joe Kennedy III (1980), Sidney Johnson (1877), Margaret O'Brien (1937), Charles A. Beard (1874), Tracey Walter (1947), and William Dwight Whitney (1827).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Alvin M. Weinberg ranks 145. Before him are Charles W. Misner (1932), William Higinbotham (1910), Edward Condon (1902), Brian Greene (1963), Seth Neddermeyer (1907), and Edith Clarke (1883). After him are Norris Bradbury (1909), Lisa Randall (1962), Edwin H. Land (1909), Leo Kadanoff (1937), John C. Slater (1900), and Frederick Seitz (1911).

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