Also→ J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atomic Bomb6. The Father of the hydrogen bomb John von Neumann was a pioneering mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the development of the hydrogen bomb. He was instrumental in working out the key steps in the ...
(source) “In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.” — John von Neumann Attributed.More John von Neumann quotes on science >>This quote is regarded as attributed because it was passed along from one person to another, and likely does not give the original ...
Fortunately that of course hasn’t happened. And it was recently suggested to me that perhaps The Box might contain some Cold-War-inspired plan for a Dr.-Strangelove-like Doomsday Machine. So—“von Neumann machine” self-replicators notwithstanding—it’s perhaps just as well that in the end...
John von Neumann - Mathematician, Scientist, WWII: In late 1943 von Neumann began work on the Manhattan Project at the invitation of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Von Neumann was an expert in the nonlinear physics of hydrodynamics and shock waves, an expertise
John von Neumann was a Hungarian-born mathematician who made valuable contributions to mathematics, quantum theory, set theory...