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instanceOf
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Canadian-American
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human
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physicist
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theoretical physicist
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awardReceived
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Fellow of the American Physical Society
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Fermi Award
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Royal Society of Canada fellowship
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birthDate
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1916-05-14
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birthPlace
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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causeOfDeath
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natural causes
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countryOfCitizenship
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Canada
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United States of America
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deathDate
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2012-10-03
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doctoralAdvisor
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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educatedAt
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University of British Columbia
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University of California, Berkeley
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employer
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California Institute of Technology
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Los Alamos Laboratory
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University of Chicago
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era
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20th-century physics
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ethnicGroup
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Canadian of Scottish descent
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familyName
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Christy
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fieldOfWork
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nuclear physics
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theoretical physics
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fullName
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Robert Frederick Christy
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genre
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nuclear weapons design
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givenName
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Robert
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influencedBy
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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knownFor
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Christy pit
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design of the solid-core plutonium implosion device
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work on the Manhattan Project
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languageSpoken
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English
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memberOf
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Manhattan Project
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militaryProject
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development of nuclear weapons during World War II
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notableIdea
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solid-core plutonium implosion design
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notableStudent
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Kip S. Thorne
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notableWork
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design of the plutonium core used in the Fat Man bomb
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design of the plutonium core used in the Trinity test
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occupation
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university teacher
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participatedIn
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Trinity nuclear test
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development of the Fat Man bomb
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positionHeld
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acting president of the California Institute of Technology
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professor of theoretical physics at Caltech
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provost of the California Institute of Technology
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residence
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Pasadena, California, United States
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spouse
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Kendra Harris Christy
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workLocation
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Los Alamos, New Mexico
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Pasadena, California
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