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Without diminishing the contributions of Oppenheimer and the others, the lion’s share of credit for the success of the Manhattan Project is due Lt. Gen. Leslie “Dick” Groves, the “indispensable man” in the project. People often gravitate toward heroes with a dash of humility and modesty best represented by an “aw shucks” demeanor.
August 17, 1896 – July 13, 1970. Leslie R. Groves. U.S. Department of Energy. The Army-led effort to build and mass produce the atomic bomb changed history. Known as the Manhattan Project, it brought together over 100,000 people, cost more than $2.2 billion, and was spread out over 30 locations across the United States. Brig.
Lieutenant General Leslie Groves (1896-1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer and director of the Manhattan Project.In September 1942, Groves was appointed to head the Manhattan Project with the rank of Temporary Brigadier General. As project leader, he was in charge of all of the project's phases,…
Gen. Leslie Groves studies a map of the Pacific, where fighting continued against the Japanese as Los Alamos scientists worked to create the first atomic bombs and end World War II. The Manhattan Project had begun in August 1942, but many of those involved found progress too slow and inefficient for such an urgent objective—the development and production of the world’s first atomic bomb.
Leslie Groves was born in Albany, New York, on August 17, 1896. He attended the University of Washington for one year and then Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years before entering West Point, from which he graduated in 1918. He was commissioned in the Engineers and took courses at the Engineer's School, Camp Humphreys (now Fort ...
General Leslie Groves’s Interview – Part 1. In this interview, General Groves discusses the start of the Manhattan Project. He remembers the troubles he had working with Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner and the importance of redundancy in designing the bomb and plants like the T-Plant. He recounts how the Project came about in the first place ...
Leslie Richard Groves ( Albany, 17 de agosto de 1896 — Washington, D.C., 13 de julho de 1970) foi um oficial do Corpo de Engenheiros do Exército dos Estados Unidos que supervisionou a construção do Pentágono e dirigiu o Projeto Manhattan, um projeto de pesquisa ultrassecreto que desenvolveu a bomba atômica durante a segunda grande guerra .
