Robert Bacher, 99; Caltech Provost, Leader in Crafting 1st Atomic Bomb
LA Times
Nuclear physicist Robert Bacher, a central figure behind the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II and the first provost of Caltech, died of natural causes Thursday at a retirement community in Montecito. He was 99. Bacher was one of hundreds of young scientists recruited to Los Alamos, N.M., for the Manhattan Project to build the bomb. He was pulled away from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943, where he had been conducting radar research, another crucial wartime effort.
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