Leonard M. Rieser
American physicist
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Leonard M. Rieser's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of Chicago
- Bachelors Physics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leonard Moos Rieser was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later for nuclear disarmament. Rieser was a professor of physics and provost at Dartmouth College. Biography Rieser was born May 18, 1922 in Chicago. He studied at Dartmouth College from 1940 to 1942 before transferring to the University of Chicago and graduating with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1943. In 1942 he enlisted in the Army Signal Corps and after graduating from Chicago was assigned to work on the secret Manhattan Project, developing the atomic bomb. Rieser first worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, then at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico where he witnessed the first atomic explosion. In 1944 he married Rosemary Littledale.
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