11 Most Expensive Science Experiments In The World

4. The Manhattan Project- 23 billion

You’re probably familiar with the name Robert Oppenheimer, well, he was the physicist in charge of the research in this experiment. After it was discovered that the Nazi’s were well on their way of developing a nuclear weapon, the Manhattan Project was created in 1941 and it lasted until 1946. As a result of the research, the atomic bomb was invented, at a price of almost 2 billion dollars, which adjusted to inflation are equivalent to $23 billion.