Los Alamos National Laboratory was established in 1943 as the Manhattan Engineer District's secret weapons laboratory, under scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer, to design and build the first nuclear weapons. Cyril Stanley Smith led its metallurgical work, and the laboratory's practical, structure-driven approach to an entirely unfamiliar metal, plutonium, was part of what led Smith afterward to argue for materials science as a field defined by structure rather than by any one class of material.
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Founded YearSourced to the subject's own account FounderSourced to the subject's own accountJ. Robert Oppenheimer, established by the U.S. Army's Manhattan Engineer District 1 SeatSourced to the subject's own accountLos Alamos, New Mexico, United States 1 Connections
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Los Alamos was established in 1943 as a top-secret site for designing and assembling nuclear weapons under the Manhattan Project.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE).
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Los Alamos was established in 1943 as Project Y, a top-secret site for designing and assembling nuclear weapons under the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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in 1943 was appointed director of the project's Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, tasked with developing the first nuclear weapons
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