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{{short description|Greek-American physicist and mathematician (1915–1999)}}
{{Infobox scientist
|image             = Nicholas Metropolis cropped.PNG
|birth_name        = Nicholas Constantine Metropolis
|birth_date        = {{Birth date|1915|6|11}}
|birth_place       = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], United States
|death_date        = {{Death date and age|1999|10|17|1915|6|11}}
|death_place       = [[Los Alamos, New Mexico|Los Alamos]], [[New Mexico]], United States
|fields            = [[Physicist]], [[Mathematician]]
|workplaces        = [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]]
|alma_mater        = [[University of Chicago]]
|known_for         = {{ubl|[[Monte Carlo method]]|[[Simulated annealing]]|[[Metropolis–Hastings algorithm]]}}
|awards            = [[Computer Pioneer Award]] <small>(1984)</small> 
}}
'''Nicholas Constantine Metropolis''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: {{lang|grc|Νικόλαος Μητρόπουλος}};<ref>{{cite journal|last=ΒΑΡΒΟΓΛΗΣ|first=Χ|date=March 16, 2008|script-title=el:Ελληνική σφραγίδα στο πρώτο μηχανοργανωμένο πείραμα|url=http://www.tovima.gr/science/article/?aid=187490|location=Athens, Greece|access-date=December 6, 2012}}</ref> June 11, 1915 &ndash; October 17, 1999) was a Greek-American [[physicist]].<ref>[http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Metropolis.html Metropolis, Nicholas Constantine (1915–1999)] Eric Weisstein's World of Biography</ref>

Metropolis received his BSc (1937) and PhD in physics (1941, with [[Robert Mulliken]]) at the [[University of Chicago]]. Shortly afterwards, [[Robert Oppenheimer]] recruited him from Chicago, where he was collaborating with [[Enrico Fermi]] and [[Edward Teller]] on the first nuclear reactors, to the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]].

He arrived in Los Alamos in April 1943, as a member of the original staff of fifty scientists. He came back to Los Alamos in 1948 to lead the group in the Theoretical Division that designed and built the [[MANIAC I]] computer in 1952 that was modeled on the IAS machine, and the [[MANIAC II]] in 1957.