page_title: Robert G. Sachs
hierarchical_section_title: Robert G. Sachs
caption_attribution_description: English: This is an image of Dixy Lee Ray, chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission and Robert G. Sachs, director of Argonne National Laboratory.
context_page_description: Robert G. Sachs was an American theoretical physicist, a founder and a director of the Argonne National Laboratory.
  Sachs was also notable for his work in theoretical nuclear physics, terminal ballistics, and nuclear power reactors.
  Sachs was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, chairman of the Academy's Physics Section, chairman of the Academy's Class I, and director of the Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago.
  Sachs was the author of the standard textbook Nuclear Theory.
context_section_description: Robert G. Sachs (May 4, 1916 – April 14, 1999) was an American theoretical physicist, a founder and a director of the Argonne National Laboratory.
  Sachs was also notable for his work in theoretical nuclear physics, terminal ballistics, and nuclear power reactors.
  Sachs was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, chairman of the Academy's Physics Section, chairman of the Academy's Class I (Physical and Mathematical Sciences), and director of the Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago.
  Sachs was the author of the standard textbook Nuclear Theory (1953).
caption: Robert G. Sachs (right) with Atomic Energy Commission chair Dixy Lee Ray.
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