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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.
Aug 22, 1997 · Dr Norris Edwin Bradbury, physicist who reluctantly followed J Robert Oppenheimer as director of nation's first atomic weapons research center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and then served...
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.
Norris Bradbury (1909-1997) was an American physicist and director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1945-1970. Norris Bradbury was born in Southern California on May 30 th, 1909.
Jul 15, 2020 · It’s become an origin story in nuclear mythologies. Norris Bradbury, group leader for bomb assembly, stands next to the partially assembled Gadget atop the test tower. © U.S. Department of...
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.
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.
Aug 27, 1997 · Norris Bradbury served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. His research interests included the electrical conductivity of gases, the properties of ions, and the behavior of atmospheric electricity.
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.
NORRIS E. ( EDWIN) BRADBURY died August 20, 1997, at the age of eighty-eight. He succeeded J. Robert Oppenheimer as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in October 1945 with the understanding that his appointment was an interim one, perhaps only for six months.
