Manhattan Project scientist visits Lab
August 15, 2006
Former Laboratory scientist Robert Christy talks with Bradbury Science Museum Director John Rhoades, left, during a recent visit to the downtown museum. A physicist, Christy was at the Laboratory during its Manhattan Project early days and did implosion design research. Christy came to Los Alamos in 1943. He later worked at the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology where he was a professor, provost, acting president, and now a professor emeritus of theoretical physics.
