Norris Bradbury

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Norris Edwin Bradbury (May 30, 1909 - August 20, 1997) served as director of Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years (1945 - 1970), succeeding J. Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project. During the war he was in charge of the final assembly of "the gadget", detonated in July 1945 for the Trinity test. He oversaw the transition of the laboratory from World War II through the Cold War. The Bradbury Science Museum is named in his honor.

[edit] External links

• Biographical memoirs by Harold M. Agnew and Raemer E. Schreiber
• Obituary from Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Annotated Bibliography for Norris Bradberry from the Alsos Digital Library

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NAME	Bradbury, Norris Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 1997
PLACE OF DEATH