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I was a bit surprised to see this bio of my late father on Wikipedia as his name is much more obscure now than it was in his heyday. I was also surprised to see a glaring, though minor, error at the end of the article. Even though the opening parenthetical dates of birth and death, as well as those in the sidebar, are correct the penultimate paragraph (just prior to the one sentence last paragraph describing his burial) mysteriously has his date of death as September 15, 1994 which is a full seven months after his actual date of death. Curious.
I would also like to point out an important omission in the description of his wartime assignments at Los Alamos. All that is mentioned in the article is that he was Group Leader of the Target, Projectile and Source Group (Group E-4, June 1943 - August 1944.) While that is true of the initial organization of the Laboratory the important omission here is that when the Laboratory was reorganized Oppenheimer transferred my father to Robert F. Bacher's Gadget Division where he headed up the Initiator Group (Group G-10, August 1944 - August 1945.) It was that group which succeeded in designing and building the initiator (neutron generator) without which the implosion weapon would not have functioned.
The two organizations of the wartime Los Alamos Laboratory can be seen on an American Institute of Physics webpage at:
http://www.aip.org/history/acap/institutions/manhattan.jsp
Bobcritch ( talk) 17:48, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
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Overall looks good. I'm placing the article on hold for 7 days (until 9 August 2013) pending resolution of the following issues:
Let me know if there are any questions/comments/concerns. Best, Corvus coronoides talk 15:37, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Nice work.
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I was a bit surprised to see this bio of my late father on Wikipedia as his name is much more obscure now than it was in his heyday. I was also surprised to see a glaring, though minor, error at the end of the article. Even though the opening parenthetical dates of birth and death, as well as those in the sidebar, are correct the penultimate paragraph (just prior to the one sentence last paragraph describing his burial) mysteriously has his date of death as September 15, 1994 which is a full seven months after his actual date of death. Curious.
I would also like to point out an important omission in the description of his wartime assignments at Los Alamos. All that is mentioned in the article is that he was Group Leader of the Target, Projectile and Source Group (Group E-4, June 1943 - August 1944.) While that is true of the initial organization of the Laboratory the important omission here is that when the Laboratory was reorganized Oppenheimer transferred my father to Robert F. Bacher's Gadget Division where he headed up the Initiator Group (Group G-10, August 1944 - August 1945.) It was that group which succeeded in designing and building the initiator (neutron generator) without which the implosion weapon would not have functioned.
The two organizations of the wartime Los Alamos Laboratory can be seen on an American Institute of Physics webpage at:
http://www.aip.org/history/acap/institutions/manhattan.jsp
Bobcritch ( talk) 17:48, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
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Overall looks good. I'm placing the article on hold for 7 days (until 9 August 2013) pending resolution of the following issues:
Let me know if there are any questions/comments/concerns. Best, Corvus coronoides talk 15:37, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Nice work.
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Some of these edits are substantive. For example, the edit of 15:35, 2 August 2013 incorrectly changes the advisor of Sophie Oleksa from Critchfield to Edward Ney. Deer*lake ( talk) 19:24, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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