He contributed to the Manhattan Project . He was also a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States , in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University . He participated in the first atomic bomb test , codenamed Trinity . After the close of World War II , he was a professor of physics at the University of Chicago until his retirement in 1982 . There , he helped Fermi establish the Enrico Fermi Institute and was its director from 1958 to 1962 . The latter part of his career was as a senior fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory . He was a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award
Trinity
Trinity (nuclear test)
Herbert L. Anderson