Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz

Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz (10 October 1921 – 31 December 2002) was an American physicist.

Biography He was born in Bryan, Texas, and grew up in Oklahoma.

In the early 1940s, Lomanitz started graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. While there, he became a protégé of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Lomanitz worked at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory on a new method of electromagnetic separation of isotopes. Lomanitz's graduate research was cut short when the Counterintelligence Corps ensured he was drafted into the Army during World War II. He later moved to Pahoa, Hawaii and died of cancer there at the end of 2002.

In popular culture In the 2023 film Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, Lomanitz was portrayed by actor Josh Zuckerman.

In the 1980 BBC miniseries Oppenheimer, Lomanitz was portrayed by actor Anthony Forrest.