Charles Critchfield

Charles Louis Critchfield (1910 – 12 February 1994) was a mathematical physicist who was chosen by J. Robbert Oppenheimer to help with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1943.^[1]

References

• A Star called the Sun by George Gamow, Viking Press Asc. 1974

External links

• Oral history interview with Charles L. Critchfield, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Interview concerns John von Neumann, whom Critchfield knew through his thesis advisor, Edward Teller, and through his work at Aberdeen and Los Alamos. It describes von Neumann's work at the Ballistics Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland and his consulting work at Los Alamos, especially on the implosion device.