#reflectingonhistory On this day, August 17, 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer warns Secretary of War Henry Stimson that Atomic weapons would improve qualitatively and quantitatively over coming years. See the timeline at: loom.ly/p--zEmc #reflectingonhistory #nuclearmuseum

#fromthearchives J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. was a mathematician and physicist who worked at the University of Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan Project.Read more about this fascinating scientist here: loom.ly/g-0qAEc

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Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist. Her epitaph on her gravestone, written by her nephew Otto Frisch, reads, “Lise Meitner: a physicist who never lost her humanity.” ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/li… 📷Nuclear Museum Nuclear Museum

#FromtheArchives Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and mathematician and a 1963 Nobel Prize winner in Physics. 👂 Listen to an interview here: loom.ly/d7o_B9s

Today is National Comic Book Day.💥 Did you know The Incredible Hulk was heavily inspired by the Atomic Age? In the comic book series, physicist Dr. Bruce Banner became exposed to gamma rays while saving the life of Rick Jones during the detonation of an experimental bomb.

Explore the Voices of the Manhattan Project--a public archive of 600 oral histories gathered from Manhattan Project Veterans and their families including J. Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves and more. Discover someone who has impacted history. loom.ly/XV3pnz0

81 years ago, in November 1942, the Los Alamos National Laboratory was selected as the top secret location for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. It was officially commissioned the next year, under the management of the University of California.

An elder of the San Ildefonso Pueblo, Atilano Montoya, “Tilano,” and his companion Edith Warner had a tearoom at the Otowi Bridge, Rio Grande crossing that welcomed Manhattan Project scientists and gave a quiet refuge from lab work. #IndigenousHeritage Photo: AtomicHeritage

The best way to experience the Nuclear Museum is to become an Einstein Society Member! Find out about the different Einstein Society levels here: loom.ly/WMlhK2w #membershipmonday #nuclearmuseum

#OnThisDay in 1942: Enrico Fermi and a team from The University of Chicago activated the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reactor -- Chicago Pile-1. It was a major #ManhattanProject milestone. Manhattan Project NHP AtomicHeritage atomicheritage.org/history/chicag…