| Robert G. Sachs | |
| Birth Name: | Robert Green Sachs |
| Birth Date: | May 4, 1916 |
| Birth Place: | Hagerstown, Maryland, United States |
| Death Place: | Hyde Park, Chicago |
| Alma Mater: | Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis Title: | Nuclear spins and magnetic moments by the alpha-particle model |
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| Thesis Year: | 1939 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Maria Goeppert-Mayer |
| Doctoral Students: | Gene Amdahl Anatole Boris Volkov Kameshwar C. Wali |
| Known For: | nuclear physics, terminal ballistics, and nuclear power reactors |
| Field: | Theoretical physics |
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Robert G. Sachs (May 4, 1916 – April 14, 1999) was an American theoretical physicist, a founder and a director of the Argonne National Laboratory.[1] [2] [3] Sachs was also notable for his work in theoretical nuclear physics, terminal ballistics, and nuclear power reactors.[3] [4] Sachs was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences,[3] chairman of the Academy's Physics Section,[3] chairman of the Academy's Class I (Physical and Mathematical Sciences),[3] and director of the Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago.[3] [4] Sachs was the author of the standard textbook Nuclear Theory (1953).[3]