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The 1970s-era electronics were replaced with state-of-the-art equipment. To reflect this increased capacity, VLA officials asked for input from both the scientific community and the public in coming up with a new name for the array, and in January 2012 it was announced that the array would be renamed the "Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array".
Oppenheimer became the laboratory's first director; from 19 October 1942. During the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos hosted thousands of employees, including many Nobel Prize-winning scientists. The location was a total secret. Its only mailing address was a post office box, number 1663, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
New Mexico's nuclear history began in 1943 with the relocation of the Manhattan Project to Los Alamos, which led to the development and detonation of the first atomic bomb.
Los Alamos has the highest millionaire concentration of any US city, with 12.4 percent of households having at least $1 million in assets. [58] This is a result of chemists, engineers, and physicists working at LANL since the Manhattan Project. [59] Only 6.6% of people are below the poverty line; one-third the rate of New Mexico. [44]
Scientists and military officials established a secret city in Los Alamos during the 1940s and tested their work at the Trinity Site some 200 miles (322 kilometers) away.
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster, dramatic ...
On Oppenheimer's recommendation, the search was narrowed to the vicinity of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Oppenheimer owned a ranch in the Sangre de Cristo Range. [44] The climate was mild, there were air and rail connections to Albuquerque, it was sufficiently distant from the West Coast of the United States for a Japanese attack not to be an ...
Mar. 9—David Manzanares recalls the early days of Oppenheimer in New Mexico. In some ways, they weren't far different from physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's early days in New Mexico: full of ...