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2 days ago · Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (/ ˈ s t r ɔː z / STRAWZ; January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was an American government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer. He was one of the original members of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946 and he served as the commission's chair in the 1950s.
2 days ago · President Dwight D. Eisenhower receives a report from Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, on the Operation Castle hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific, March 30, 1954. Strauss pressed for Oppenheimer's security clearance to be revoked.
5 days ago · NOMINATION OF LEWIS STRAUSS AS SECRETARY OF COMMERCE. Jun 19, 1959 . unknown. unknown Required. Source: VoteView.com . The Nay votes represented 54% of the country’s population by apportioning each state’s population to its voting senators.
4 days ago · Admiral Lewis Strauss became chairman of the AEC in 1953. Strauss was familiar with the Richter article and sponsored a meeting in Washington attended by Luis Alvarez, Don Kerst, Spitzer, and Tuck to advise on the possibility of controlled fusion.
4 days ago · His efforts to raise awareness of the effects of the bomb bring him to a face-off with Lewis Strauss, destroying his reputation and leading to the revocation of his security clearance. The Oppenheimer movie places the lead character in the same position of suffering as Prometheus.
3 days ago · Mitsui & Co has begun building an ammonia plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with partners including an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) unit, it said on Tuesday.
4 days ago · Michel Rouzé The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist behind the Manhattan Project, played a pivotal role in developing atomic weapons and forever changed the course of history with his contributions to nuclear science.
