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Stanisław Marcin Ulam was a Polish mathematician who made important contributions in advancing the understanding of nuclear physics and computer science. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, recognised the concept of the cellular automaton, invented the Monte Carlo method of computation, and championed nuclear pulse propulsion. In pu…

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science · Polish mathematician and physicist (1909–1984) · mathematician · university teacher · physicist · writer · scientist · also Stanisław Ulam, Stanislaw Ulam, Ulam

Born 13 April 1909 · Died 13 May 1984 · Q234357

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El Dr. Edward Teller trabajó conmigo.
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Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.
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2023· 1 entry

Jan 26, 2023Documented record69% confidence

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culture.pl: Stanisław Ulam — ojciec "superbomby"

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2021· 2 entries

Jul 1, 2021Documented record69% confidence

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Wyborcza: Stanisław Ulam - bombowy matematyk. Prawda czasu i prawda ekranu w filmie "Geniusze"

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2021Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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German film director Thorsten Klein made a film adaptation of Ulam's autobiography, Adventures of a Mathematician

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2019· 2 entries

Aug 24, 2019Documented record69% confidence

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wp: Stanisław Ulam. Polak, który pomógł Amerykanom zbudować bombę atomową

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2019Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Polish entomologist Marcin Kamiński introduced the generic name Ulamus to honor Ulam's work

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2016· 1 entry

Aug 24, 2016Documented record69% confidence

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Wyborcza: Sylwetka. Stanisław Ulam (1909-1984), matematyk jądrowy

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1990· 1 entry

1990Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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The University of California Press issued a compilation of mathematical reports by Ulam and his Los Alamos collaborators: Analogies Between Analogies

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1987· 2 entries

1987Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Los Alamos issued a special issue of its Science publication, which summarized his accomplishments, and which appeared, in 1989, as the book From Cardinals to Chaos

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1987Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Françoise Ulam deposited his papers with the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia

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1984· 6 entries

May 13, 1984Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1984-05-13.

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c. 1984Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote68% confidence

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“El Dr. Edward Teller trabajó conmigo.”

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c. 1984Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote68% confidence

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“I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate...”

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“The first sign of senility is that a man forgets his theorems, the second sign is that he forgets to zip up, the third sign is that he forgets to zip down.”

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“Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.”

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c. 1984Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote68% confidence

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“The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.”

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1980· 2 entries

1980Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Donald Kerr, laboratory director at Los Alamos, with the strong support of Ulam and Mark Kac, founded the Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS)

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1980Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Ulam and his wife appeared in the television documentary The Day After Trinity

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1976· 1 entry

1976Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was awarded the Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta by the Polish government-in-exile in London

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1975· 1 entry

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Ulam began to spend winter semesters at the University of Florida, where he was a graduate research professor

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1968· 1 entry

1968Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Recognizing this emphasis, the University of Colorado School of Medicine appointed Ulam as Professor of Biomathematics, and he held this position until his death

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1967· 1 entry

1967Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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The last of these positions became permanent, when Ulam was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Colorado

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1963· 2 entries

1963Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Adam Ulam, who had become an eminent kremlinologist at Harvard, received a letter from George Volsky, who hid in Józef Ulam's house after deserting from the Polish army

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1963Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1961 to 1962 and 1965 to 1967

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1958· 3 entries

Jan 22, 1958Documented record70% confidence

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Ulam replied that "the future as a whole of mankind is to some extent involved inexorably now with going outside the globe

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1958Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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An earlier discussion with John von Neumann "centered on the accelerating progress of technology and changes in human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race

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1958Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And ended in 1965, after the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 banned nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere and in space

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1957· 1 entry

1957Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Received from Steinhaus a copy of the book, which had survived the war, and translated it into English

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1955· 1 entry

1955Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Ulam and Frederick Reines considered nuclear propulsion of aircraft and rockets

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1954· 1 entry

1954Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Wrote an article on the history of the H-bomb, which presents his opinion that both men contributed very significantly to the breakthrough

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1949· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1949Documented record79% confidence

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Published “The Monte Carlo Method” in Journal of the American Statistical Association — cited 4,635 times.

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1948· 1 entry

1948Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Its scope was extended by Ulam and Everett

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1940· 1 entry

1940Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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After being recommended by Birkhoff, Ulam became an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

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1935· 1 entry

1935Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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John von Neumann, whom Ulam had met in Warsaw, invited him to come to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, for a few months

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1933· 2 entries

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Under the supervision of Kazimierz Kuratowski and Włodzimierz Stożek

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Jan 1, 1933Documented record84% confidence

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Studied at Lviv Polytechnic (1927–1933).

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1929· 2 entries

1929Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Until his death, Ulam was constantly writing on mathematics

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1929Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Published his first paper Concerning Functions of Sets in the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae

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1919· 1 entry

1919Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Ulam entered Lwów Gymnasium Nr

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1918· 1 entry

1918Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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It became part of the newly restored Poland, the Second Polish Republic, and the city took its Polish name again, Lwów

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1909· 1 entry

Apr 13, 1909Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1909-04-13.

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