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Article: Alexander Langsdorf Jr., Anti-Bomb Nuclear Physicist
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 26, 1996
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Alexander Langsdorf Jr., 83, a nuclear physicist who was on the
team that developed the atom bomb but later spoke out against the
weapon, died Friday at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital of complications
from hip surgery.
The St. Louis native came to Chicago in 1943, when he was
recruited to work with Enrico Fermi on the Manhattan Project, the
research blitz conducted at the University of Chicago that resulted
in the nuclear bomb dropped on Japan during World War II.
After the success of the project, which opened up the nuclear
age, Mr. Langsdorf refused to move to Arizona for the next phase,
construction of the atom bomb.
In a 1982 ceremony here commemorating the dropping of the atom
bomb ...