- 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.
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