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Theodore Hall

1925 - 1999

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Theodore Alvin Hall (October 20, 1925 – November 1, 1999) was an American physicist and an atomic spy for the Soviet Union, who, during his work on United States efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II (the Manhattan Project), gave a detailed description of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, and of several processes for purifying plutonium, to Soviet intelligence. His brother, Edward N. Hall, was a rocket scientist who led the U.S. Air Force's program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, personally designing the Minuteman missile and convincing the Pentagon and President Eisenhower to adopt it as a key part of the nation's strategic nuclear triad. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Theodore Hall is the 488th most popular physicist (up from 510th in 2019), the 4,136th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,075th in 2019) and the 104th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Theodore Hall ranks 488 out of 851. Before him are Max Abraham, Martin Knudsen, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Robert Brout, and Macedonio Melloni. After him are Jayant Narlikar, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Christian Mayer, Toshiko Yuasa, Meghnad Saha, and Augusto Righi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Theodore Hall ranks 196. Before him are Ernst Stojaspal, Silvana Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Kalle Svensson, Johnny Horton, and Roy Medvedev. After him are Andrei Sinyavsky, Solomon Perel, Peter Hirsch, Alexei Tupolev, Maureen Stapleton, and Nina Lobkovskaya. Among people deceased in 1999, Theodore Hall ranks 111. Before him are Ernest Gold, Shankar Dayal Sharma, Oscar Cullmann, Fritz Fischer, Karekin I, and Carlos Romero. After him are George Mosse, Milt Jackson, Moondog, Flávio Costa, Grete Stern, and Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theodore Hall ranks 4,136 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack Sherman (1956), Howie Dorough (1973), Mike White (1970), Cedric Gibbons (1893), Adam Baldwin (1962), and Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863). After him are Thomas S. Gates Jr. (1906), Dick Wolf (1946), Dyanne Thorne (1936), Jon Bernthal (1976), Jonathan Groff (1985), and Jane Lynch (1960).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Theodore Hall ranks 104. Before him are Chester Carlson (1906), Leonard Susskind (1940), Clarence Zener (1905), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Alan Sokal (1955), and Robert Brout (1928). After him are Robert Serber (1909), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937), Lester Germer (1896), Clyde Cowan (1919), David J. Griffiths (1942), and Maurice Karnaugh (1924).

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