Norris Bradbury

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Norris Bradbury
Norris Bradbury
Born	May 30, 1909 (1909-05-30) Santa Barbara, California
Died	August 20, 1997 (aged 88) Los Alamos, New Mexico
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Los Alamos
Alma mater	Pomona College, B.S. University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D.
Known for	Succeeded J. Robert Oppenheimer as director at Los Alamos
Notable awards	Enrico Fermi Award, 1970

Norris Edwin Bradbury (May 30, 1909 - August 20, 1997), was an American physicist who was born in Santa Barbara, California. He served as director of the 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] See also

• Bradbury-Nielsen shutter

[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

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