Los Alamos
Americannoun
noun
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Roxana Bujack, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, led a team that applied geometry to precisely describe how we experience hue, saturation and lightness.
From Science Daily
In Los Alamos: The real home where Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project nuclear-weapon program, lived with his family was used for some interior shots in “Oppenheimer,” starring Cillian Murphy.
That was in 1992, and we actually took the cadets on a field trip to Los Alamos where the first nuclear weapon had largely been developed.
From Salon
During World War II, he was among the elite scientists recruited to a secret lab called Los Alamos, in the mountains of New Mexico.
From Literature
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The Los Alamos director, Wilson remembered, “didn’t want to talk about that sort of thing” and would instead redirect the conversation to technical matters.
From Salon
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