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Arthur Holly Compton played critical role in the development of the atomic bomb. Arthur was born in Wooster, Ohio on September 10th, 1892. Compton's first position was as an instructor at the University of Minnesota. He went to the college of Wooster. He spent three years in post graduate study at Princeton University receiving his M.A.degree in 1914 and his Ph.D. in 1916. He took a position as a research engineer with the Westinghouse camp company. Until 1919 when he studied at Cambridge University as a National Research Council Fellow. In 1920 he was chosen as Waymen Crow Professor of Physics and Head of the Department of Physics at Washington University in St.Louis. In 1923 he moved to Chicago then later retired.

Another person who helped the development of the atomic bomb was Enrico Fermi. Enrico Fermi was born on Sept. 29, 1901. Enrico was born in Rome. Fermi received his PhD from the University of Pisa in 1922. In 1923, he was awarded a scholarship to the Italian Government and spent a few months working with Professor Max Born in Gottingen. Then he moved to Leydes in 1924 to work with P. Ehrefest. He later returned to Italy to have the part as a lecturer in mathematical physics and mechanics at the University of Florence. In 1927 Fermi was elected Professor of theoretical physics at the University of Rome. Fermi later escaped to America to get away from Mussolini. He then retured to Rome shortly after. In 1927 Fermi won the 1938 Noble Prize in physics for his neutron work.

Another person who helped create the atomic bomb was Klaus Fuchs a Germain-born British scientist who helped the development of the atomic bomb. Fuchs and his family fled from Germany to avoid the Nazi party and came to Great Britain, where Fuchs earned his doctorate in physics. On February 22, in Great Britain Klaus was arrested for passing atomic secrets to soviet agents during and after WWII (1939-1945) Fuchs goes to prison after he admitted his guilt. After he was released he went straight to East Germany to work at the institute for Nuclear Physics where he stayed for 20 years

Another person who helped in the making of the atomic bomb was J. Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer was called the father of the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer was born in New York on April 22, 1904. Oppenheimer directed the Manhattan Project, which built the first atomic bomb that was later dropped on Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Oppenheimer was later named an American hero. Oppenheimer went to Harvard college to be a physicist. Robert died in Princeton in 1967 from throat cancer.

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Stuewer, Roger H. "Compton, Arthur Holly (1892-1962)." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Ed. Suzanne M. Bourgoin. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. 17 vols.Student Resource Center - Gold. Thomson Gale. Cook Memorial Public Library. 14 Feb. 2007 <[|http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GBRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=SRC-1&docId=EK1631001502&source=gale&srcprod=SRCG&userGroupName=ccscm&version=1.0>.]