The Manhattan Project was a top-secret program that culminated in the development of the first atomic bombs during World War 2. This covert and controversial research endeavor involved many gifted and reputable scientists, including physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Milán Janosov, Founder of Geospatial Data Consulting and Chief Data Scientist at Baoba, recently set out to map the relationships between scientists who took part in the Manhattan Project using methods rooted in network science. Network or data science is a field of research that explores the intricate connections between people in a group or between individual parts of networked systems. The work is published on the arXiv preprint server.
"I have been working with social networks and mapping unusual datasets to uncover hidden connections for a while," Janosov said. "During this journey, I also mapped hidden networks of scientists, including for instance, the network of Nobel laureates in another project released earlier this year. So, I already had a history of mapping scientists' networks. After watching the long-awaited Oppenheimer movie, I decided to also untangle the collaboration and social connections behind the Manhattan project, which if one of the largest, most impactful scientific collaborations of human history."
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