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Project Y

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Chronological records

1942

Robert Oppenheimer13 September 1942

Science / Physics

At a meeting of the S-1 Executive Committee, it is decided that a centralized laboratory should be established to study fast neutrons, code-named "Project Y"

Names involved

Robert Oppenheimer

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