Nicholas Metropolis

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Nicholas Metropolis

Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a Greek American

Greek American

Greek Americans are Citizenship of the United States of Greeks origin. According to the 2007 United States Census Bureau estimation, there were 1,380,088 people of Greek Ethnic groups in the United States, while the United States Department of State mentions that around 3,000,000 Americans claim Greek descent....
mathematician

Mathematician

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, physicist

Physicist

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, and computer scientist

Computer scientist

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Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a Greek American

Greek American

Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
, physicist

Physicist

Computer scientist

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Metropolis received his B.Sc. (1937) and Ph.D. (1941) degrees in experimental physics at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
. Shortly afterwards, Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer

Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physics and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project: the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons at the secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico....
recruited him from Chicago, where he was at the time collaborating with Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of Quantum mechanics, nuclear physics and particle physics, and statistical mechanics....
and Edward Teller

Edward Teller

Edward Teller was a Jewish-Hungarian-American theoretical physics physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", even though he claimed that he did not care for the title....
on the first nuclear reactors, to the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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. He arrived in the Los Alamos, on April 1943, as a member of the original staff of fifty scientists.

Nicholas Metropolis

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After World War II