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Robert Lee Walker

Research AssistantChicago, IL

Los Alamos, NM
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffScientist

Robert Lee Walker was an American physicist.

Walker was born in 1919 in Saint Louis. He received a B.S. in physics from the University of Chicago.

During World War II, Walker was hired to work on the Manhattan Project at the Chicago Met Lab as a research assistant. He would also work at Los Alamos.

After the war, Walker went on to receive a Ph.D. from Cornell University, for which he built a miniature cyclotron. He then taught physics for many years at the California Institute of Technology, where he helped to build the Caltech Synchrotron.

Walker died on January 5, 2005, in Tesuque, New Mexico.

Robert Lee Walker’s Timeline
1919 Jun 29th Born in Saint Louis.

1941 Received a B.S. from the University of Chicago

19421945 Worked on the Manhattan Project at the Chicago Met Lab and at Los Alamos.

1948 Received a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University.

2005 Jan 5th Died in Tesuque, New Mexico.

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