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Robert Bacher

1905 - 2004

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Robert Fox Bacher (August 31, 1905 – November 18, 2004) was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Born in Loudonville, Ohio, Bacher obtained his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan, writing his 1930 doctoral thesis under the supervision of Samuel Goudsmit on the Zeeman effect of the hyperfine structure of atomic levels. After graduate work at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he accepted a job at Columbia University. In 1935 he accepted an offer from Hans Bethe to work with him at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Bacher is the 743rd most popular physicist (up from 766th in 2019), the 9,513th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,034th in 2019) and the 167th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert Bacher ranks 743 out of 851. Before him are Vilho Väisälä, Seymour Benzer, Peter Mark Roget, Ted Fujita, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Rolf-Dieter Heuer. After him are Hans Reissner, Hubert Curien, Adriaan Fokker, Humberto Fernández-Morán, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, and Stanton T. Friedman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Robert Bacher ranks 341. Before him are Jack Teagarden, James Burnham, Clarice Benini, Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, Roy Henkel, and Ibrahim Tuqan. After him are Hans Scherfig, Miguel Mihura, Hanns Kilian, Gerrit Achterberg, Raymundo Rodríguez, and Sterling Holloway. Among people deceased in 2004, Robert Bacher ranks 277. Before him are Sylvi Saimo, Victor Argo, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Alexey Korneyev, Robert Pastorelli, and Custódio Pinto. After him are Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Helmut Rix, Yang Xinhai, Bob Tisdall, and Carl Raddatz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Bacher ranks 9,515 out of 20,380. Before him are Dan Rather (1931), John Norton (1893), Gregory Helms (1974), Jenna Haze (1982), Michael Aschbacher (1944), and Irving Kristol (1920). After him are Bebel Gilberto (1966), David Canary (1938), Nunnally Johnson (1897), Heidi Montag (1986), Kelly Marie Tran (1989), and Blind Willie McTell (1898).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert Bacher ranks 167. Before him are Nicholas Metropolis (1915), Gerald Guralnik (1936), Karl Taylor Compton (1887), James Hartle (1939), Seymour Benzer (1921), and Shirley Ann Jackson (1946). After him are Stanton T. Friedman (1934), Elda Emma Anderson (1899), Mary K. Gaillard (1939), Frank Benford (1883), Paul Steinhardt (1952), and Bertrand Halperin (1941).

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