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Birth Name:

Nicholas Metropolis

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Jun 11, 1915

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Age:

108

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

19°

Gem

43'

About Nicholas Metropolis

Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (Greek: Νικόλαος Μητρόπουλος; June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a Greek-American physicist.

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External Links:

• 1993 Audio Interview with Nicholas Metropolis by Richard Rhodes Voices of the Manhattan Project

• Oral history interview with Nicholas C. Metropolis, Conducted by William Aspray at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Metropolis, the first director of computing services at Los Alamos National Laboratory, discusses John von Neumann's work in computing. Most of the interview concerns activity at Los Alamos: how von Neumann came to consult at the laboratory; his scientific contacts there, including Metropolis, Robert Richtmyer, and Edward Teller; von Neumann's first hands-on experience with punched card equipment; his contributions to shock-fitting and the implosion problem; interactions between and comparisons of von Neumann and Enrico Fermi; and the development of Monte Carlo techniques. Other topics include: the relationship between Alan Turing and von Neumann; work on numerical methods for non-linear problems; and the ENIAC calculations done for Los Alamos.

• Francis Harlow and Nicolas Metropolis. Computing and Computers -- Weapons Simulation Leads to the Computer Era. Los Alamos Science No. 7, Page 132.

• Herbert Anderson. Metropolis, Monte Carlo and the MANIAC. Los Alamos Science No. 14, Page 69.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Nicholas Metropolis: Sun 19 Gemini, Moon 8 Gemini, Mercury 9 Cancer, Venus 24 Taurus, Mars 12 Taurus, Jupiter 26 Pisces, Saturn 3 Cancer, Uranus 15 Aquarius, Neptune 28 Cancer, Pluto 1 Cancer, Sun Trine Uranus, Mercury Conjunct Saturn, Mercury Semi Square Venus, Mercury Sextile Mars, Venus Sextile Jupiter, Venus Sextile Neptune, Mars Semi Square Jupiter, Mars Square Uranus, Jupiter Trine Neptune, Saturn Conjunct Pluto, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Pluto

Categories related to Nicholas Metropolis: 20th-century American mathematicians, University of Chicago alumni, Fellows of the American Physical Society, June 11 births, Greek computer scientists, American computer scientists, American people of Greek descent, 20th-century American physicists, Greek academics, 1999 deaths, University of Chicago faculty, Santa Fe Institute people, Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel, Manhattan Project people, 1915 births, Monte Carlo methodologists, 20th-century Greek mathematicians, 20th-century Greek physicists