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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. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
Aug 31, 2021 · Initially agreeing to become the Los Alamos Lab’s 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. Other notable accomplishments during his tenure include:
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...
Norris Bradbury was an American physicist and director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1945-1970. He oversaw the development and testing of nuclear weapons, including the Fat Man bomb and the Trinity test, and the expansion of the laboratory into basic and applied research. Learn more about his life, career, and legacy on this web page.
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. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
Aug 23, 1997 · Norris Bradbury, the physicist who helped assemble the first atomic bomb and then headed the key Los Alamos nuclear laboratory for 25 years of the Cold War, has died at age 88. His family and...
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. He spent two years as a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then joined the faculty at Stanford University to ...
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