During the Manhattan Project, it’s probable that Los Alamos contained the largest concentration of brainpower ever assembled. So high was the bar for participation that the choice of Oppenheimer, a non-Nobelist, to serve as the scientific leader of the Los Alamos site was controversial, since his role would involve directing several Nobel winners, including Bohr, Fermi, Lawrence, James Chadwick, and Isidor Rabi.
