in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Day After Trinity (1980). In the 1989 movie dramatization of the Manhattan Project, Fat Man and Little Boy, he was portrayed by H. David Politzer, a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech. Politzer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. Serber died June 1, 1997 at his home in Manhattan from complications of surgery for brain cancer. Bibliography Original 1943 "LA-1", declassified in 1965, plus commentary and historical introduction. Robert Serber 1909—1997 A Biographical Memoir by Robert P. Crease, 2008, National Academy of Sciences, Washington. References Further reading External links 1994 Audio Interview with Robert Serber by Richard Rhodes Voices of the Manhattan Project 1982 Audio Interview with Robert Serber by Martin Sherwin Voices of the Manhattan Project Annotated bibliography for Robert Serber from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Naming of Fat Man & Thin Man after Churchill, Roosevelt? Oral History interview transcript with Robert Serber 26 November 1996, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives Oral History interview transcript with Robert Serber 10 February 1967, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives Eyewitness Account of the Trinity Test 1909 births 1997 deaths 20th-century American Jews 20th-century American physicists Manhattan Project people Central High School (Philadelphia) alumni Lehigh University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Columbia University faculty Jewish American scientists People associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Deaths from brain cancer in the United States Deaths from cancer in New York (state) Presidents of the American Physical Society Fellows of the American Physical Society Scientists from Philadelphia