Melba Phillips News Today

Melba Phillips co-authored a paper with J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1935 that proved important in the development of nuclear physics. Later she became an outspoken critic of nuclear weapons

Physicists Ruth Howes and Caroline Herzenberg’s ten-year research project ensured a place in history for the female scientists, engineers and technicians who worked on the atomic bomb

Have you seen what these people looked like in real life?

As a professor at Berkeley, Oppenheimer mesmerized a generation of students and established the greatest school of theoretical physics in America

Joseph Fabian Mattingly, Dons uncle, attended first A-bomb detonation in 1945; Hazletons Phillips worked with Oppenheimer before Manhattan Project