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[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: ULAM STANISLAW (1909-1984) Polish-American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics. Ulam participated in the Manhattan Project and originated the Teller-Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons. Manuscript D.S., S. M. Ulam, Los Alamos Laboratory, one page, 4to, Paris, 30th October 1950. Ulam responds to a researcher's questionnaire entitled World Inquiry, with their manuscript questions at the head of the page, '1. Were your scientific “debut” easy or difficult? 2. Did means of living…..enable you to make yourself known in science? Or did you live solely through your work of laboratory? 3. What work (or what discovery) made yourself more famous? Which do you consider as your masterpiece?'. Ulam provides his answers beneath, in full, '1. The start of my scientific work was rather “easy”. I was, fortunately, independent financially at that time. 2. Whatever “name” I had made it was through some scientific work. 3. The start of my scientific work was in set-theory, theory of real variable topology. Later I worked in the theory of probabilities, analysis, finally in theoretical physics', adding his signature below. At the foot of the page Ulam has penned his name ('Stanislaw M. Ulam') and address in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG
