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American martial officer (1896–1970)

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Leslie Richard General Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) was a United States Army Cohort of Engineers officer who oversaw representation construction more than a few the Bureaucracy and directed the Borough Project, a top colour research responsibilities that handsome the minute bomb meanwhile World Battle II.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The partnership between General Leslie Groves and the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the great stories of the Second World War, and it was as unexpected as it was successful. There was little in either man's life before 1942 to suggest that the general and the physicist would ever meet, much less form a close working association to develop an atomic bomb. They came from very different cultural and economic backgrounds. Their careers alone would have kept them apart had not the war thrown them together and changed their lives utterly. In Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie Groves found the man to help him achieve fame and success through the creation of a secret weapon that could end America's greatest war. Oppenheimer did that

Starting point is 00:00:45 by recruiting scientists and engineers, inspiring them, and under Groves' supervision, leading them in creating the new bomb. In Groves, Robert Oppenheimer found the man who would reinvigorate his career and give direction to his life. Groves did that by giving him an unimaginably grand scientific and engineering task, along with virtually unlimited resources. Hundreds of thousands of people in research laboratories and plants across the United States helped to create the atomic bomb,

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Leslie Groves Biographical information Date of birth August 17, 1896 Age (1925) 29 Age (1931) 35 Physical description Gender Male Hair color Brown (also brown mustache) Eye color Brown Behind-the-scenes information

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"The Manhattan Project took a lot out of both of us."

—Talking to Emmett Brown

Leslie Groves (August 17, 1896 – July 13, 1970), of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, led the Manhattan Project. He had the rank of Major General during his time on the Manhattan Project. After the war, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.

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In 1943, Groves and Vannevar Bush interviewed Dr. Emmett Brown for a position with the Manhattan Project. Despite a disastrous interview, Doc was awarded the position.

In 1962, Groves and Colone