A leading physicist in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II who later became an arms-control advocate. He was the founding chancellor of the University of California San Diego, serving from 1961 to 1964 and then from 1970 to 1972.
Founding chancellor of the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in 1961.
Nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb; later became an arms-control advocate.
After WWII, he earned his doctorate at UC-Berkeley, and was appointed director of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory when he was only 28.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics at the University of Rochester.
His father was a railroad baggage handler.
He was a chief negotiator in the US-Soviet talks on banning nuclear weapons testing.
He was an advisor to six US presidents on scientific research and arms control.