# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alvin-m-weinberg
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:51:14.823Z

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name: "Alvin M. Weinberg"
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description: "Alvin Martin Weinberg was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term \"Faustian bargain\" to describe nuclear energy."
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birthDate: "1915-04-20"
deathDate: "2006-10-18"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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