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Maurice Shapiro
Maurice &#;Maury&#; Shapiro was an American physicist who studied underwater explosions at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Born Moishe Mendel Werner in Jerusalem during World War I, Maury moved to Chicago with his mother and her second husband, the Rabbi Osher Shapiro, when he was 6 years old.
Maurice c shapiro biography
There he studied physics at the University of Chicago, receiving first his bachelor’s in and then his Ph.D. under the direction of Arthur Compton in Shapiro briefly attended a Talmudic seminary in New York after receiving his bachelor’s degree, but returned to Chicago to devote himself instead to physics.
Shapiro’s research involved the new photographic emulsion technique to study cosmic rays.
At the beginning of World War II, Shapiro was offered a post as a civilian scientist at a naval base in Maryland, where he began his work on the dynamics of underwater explosions.
In , Shapiro began work with the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, studying the effects of fission