Fig. 5. Lyman Briggs at a 13 Sept. 1942 meeting in Bohemian Grove, CA of the S-1 Executive Committee which constituted the scientific leadership of the American atomic bomb project. Left to right: Harold Urey, Ernest Lawrence, James Conant, Briggs, Edgar Murphee, Arthur Compton. (Credit: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives).

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