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Bookmark or Share- Manhattan Project Leaders: Leslie Richard Groves, Jr.US Army Colonel Leslie Groves, from Albany, New York, was appointed head of the Manhattan Engineer District on September 17, 1942. Upon his appointment to lead this top-secret project, Groves wasted little time getting to work.
- Leslie ‘Dick’ Groves: The Manhattan Project GeneralWithout diminishing the contributions of Oppenheimer and the others, the lion’s share of credit for the success of the Manhattan Project is due Lt. Gen. Leslie “Dick” Groves, the “indispensable man” in the project.
- Leslie Groves - WikipediaLeslie Richard Groves Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
- Army General and Physicist Helped Usher in the Atomic AgeNo one person can be credited with producing the world's first atomic bomb but two men had outsize achievements in that effort: physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Army Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves.
- General Leslie Groves | Biographies - Atomic ArchiveGeneral Leslie Groves. (1896 - 1970) Leslie Groves was born in Albany, New York, on August 17, 1896. He attended the University of Washington for one year and then Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years before entering West Point, from which he graduated in 1918.
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