Robert Fox Bacher

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Personal Life

Robert Fox Bacher, an American nuclear physicist, recruited by J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1942 for the Manhattan Project. He was to serve as the leader of the experimental physics division and bomb physics division. Bacher was born in Loudonville, Ohio and attended University of Michigan for his undergraduate degree and doctorate completing his thesis on the Zeeman effect of the hyperfine structure of atomic levels. He also attended California Insitute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduation, Bacher accepted a faculty position at Columbia University.