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  1. Norris Edwin Bradbury (May 30, 1909 – August 20, 1997), was an American physicist who served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970.

  2. Aug 31, 2021 · Initially agreeing to become the Los Alamos Labs second director for a six-month interim period, Norris Bradbury assumed the helm 75 years ago on October 17, 1945. He stayed for 25 years, becoming the longest serving of the Lab’s 12 directors.

  3. Aug 20, 1997 · Norris Bradbury. (1909 - 1997) Bradbury, born May 30, 1909, in Santa Barbara, California., earned a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, for work on the mobility of ions in gases.

  4. Learn about Norris Bradbury, the American physicist who led Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1945 to 1970. He oversaw the development and testing of nuclear weapons, as well as the expansion of the lab into various fields of research.

  5. Dec 24, 2017 · From Stanford blackboards to raw nuclear power, Norris Bradbury has contributed (more than) his time to the world. Bradbury was not only a well-respected professor at Stanford, but also an exceptional physicist who contributed to the Manhattan Project during World War II.

  6. Aug 22, 1997 · Norris Edwin Bradbury, the physicist who reluctantly followed J. Robert Oppenheimer as the director of the nation's first atomic weapons research center and then served longer in the job than...

  7. Norris Bradbury was an American physicist and director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1945-1970. During the Manhattan Project, Bradbury directed the implosion field test program and helped prepare the “Gadget” for the Trinity test.

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