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Leslie Groves

1896 - 1970

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Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II. The son of a U.S. Army chaplain, Groves lived at various Army posts during his childhood. In 1918, he graduated fourth in his class at the United States Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned into the United States Army Corps of Engineers. In 1929, he went to Nicaragua as part of an expedition to conduct a survey for the Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leslie Groves is the 25th most popular engineer (down from 15th in 2019), the 864th most popular biography from United States (down from 447th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Leslie Groves ranks 25 out of 389. Before him are Anatoly Dyatlov, Jack Kilby, Andrei Tupolev, Artem Mikoyan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, and Banū Mūsā. After him are Hans Albert Einstein, August Horch, Willy Messerschmitt, Bassel al-Assad, Hermann Oberth, and Jiro Horikoshi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Leslie Groves ranks 28. Before him are Felix Steiner, Dziga Vertov, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Howard Hawks, A. J. Cronin, and Eugenio Montale. After him are Donald Winnicott, Buenaventura Durruti, Anna Anderson, Ernst Udet, Erich Koch, and Sandro Pertini. Among people deceased in 1970, Leslie Groves ranks 31. Before him are Alfred Newman, Jochen Rindt, Napoleon Hill, Eric Berne, Artem Mikoyan, and Vladimir Propp. After him are Hugh Dowding, Bruce McLaren, Italo Gariboldi, Frances Farmer, Władysław Anders, and Andrey Yeryomenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leslie Groves ranks 864 out of 20,380. Before him are Larry Fink (1952), John Coltrane (1926), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Lady Gaga (1986), Lana Turner (1921), and Dolly Parton (1946). After him are Cyndi Lauper (1953), Alvin Toffler (1928), Ellen Burstyn (1932), Boris Johnson (1964), Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902), and Richard Dean Anderson (1950).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Leslie Groves ranks 3. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), and Jack Kilby (1923). After him are Howard H. Aiken (1900), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), Henry Gantt (1861), Jack Parsons (1914), Jack Swigert (1931), Vannevar Bush (1890), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), and J. Walter Christie (1865).

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