Stanisław Ulam
Stanisław Marcin Ulam (April 13, 1909 – May 13, 1984) was a Polish mathematician who took part in the Manhattan Project and proposed the design used for most thermonuclear weapons.
He also proposed using nuclear explosions to propel rockets, and he developed several mathematical tools in number theory, set theory, ergodic theory and algebraic topology. Above all, he is known by being a coauthor (with Nicholas Metropolis) of the Monte Carlo algorithm.
Stanisław Ulam Media
The Scottish Café's building in Lviv, Ukraine now houses the Szkocka Restaurant & Bar (named for the original Scottish Café).
Ulam's ID badge photo from Los Alamos National Laboratory
Stan Ulam holding the FERMIAC
The Sausage device of Mike nuclear test (yield 10.4 Mt) on Enewetak Atoll. The test was part of the Operation Ivy. The Sausage was the first true H-Bomb ever tested, meaning the first thermonuclear device built upon the Teller-Ulam principles of staged radiation implosion.
When the positive integers are arrayed along the Ulam spiral, prime numbers, represented by dots, tend to collect along diagonal lines.
References
- ↑ Understanding the Cold War: a historian's personal reflections, Adam Bruno Ulam, Transaction Publishers, 2002