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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...
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    director, serving from 1943 to December 1945, when he was succeeded by Norris Bradbury. In order to enable scientists to freely discuss their work while preserving...
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    explosive lenses, was carried out by the bomb assembly team headed by Norris Bradbury at Los Alamos on July 3. It was driven to Trinity and back. A set of...
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    and was named for the Laboratory's second director (1945–1970), Norris E. Bradbury. Among the museum's early exhibits, artifacts and documents from World...
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    implies that Oppenheimer was being hypocritical. Despite an offer from Norris Bradbury, who had replaced Oppenheimer as the director of Los Alamos in November...
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    former colleagues were shocked. The postwar director of Los Alamos, Norris Bradbury, later said that: Fuchs was a strange man. I knew him, though not well...
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    1962, pp. 81–82 Hoddeson et al. 1993, pp. 57–58. Norris 2002, p. 244. Groves 1962, pp. 61–63. Norris 2002, p. 242. Groves 1962, p. 63 Bird & Sherwin 2005...
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    " as scientist Alvin C. Graves communicated to Los Alamos director Norris Bradbury. But, Graves continued, because high-yield shots were "dangerous" (as...
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    employees. He took over at a time of great change. His predecessor, Norris Bradbury, had rebuilt the laboratory from scratch after the war, and many of...
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    Oppenheimer retired from the directorship, and it was taken over by Norris Bradbury, whose initial mission was to make the previously hand-assembled atomic...
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    the University of California and Groves appointed Norris Bradbury as an interim replacement; Bradbury remained in the post for the next 25 years. Groves...
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    A Bradbury–Nielsen shutter (or Bradbury–Nielsen gate) is a type of electrical ion gate, which was first proposed in an article by Norris Bradbury and...
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    December 17, 1945, Henry Newson, in a memo to Los Alamos director Norris Bradbury, had estimated that for Baker, "there will probably be enough plutonium...
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    German-American nuclear physicist, awarded 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics Norris Bradbury, physicist and second director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (1945-1970)...
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    the Los Alamos Laboratory, Neddermeyer's group was renamed X-1, with Norris Bradbury as group leader. The implosion method championed by Neddermeyer was...
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  • 1969), American basketball coach Nicola Bradbury (born 1951), English literary critic and editor Norris Bradbury (1909–1997), American physicist, director...
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    Los Alamos National Laboratory for four more years and to appoint Norris Bradbury, who had replaced Oppenheimer as its director in October 1945, as a...
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    Oppenheimer resigns as director of Los Alamos, and is succeeded by Norris Bradbury the next day. February: News of the Russian spy ring in Canada exposed...
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    that had not been possible under the pressure of wartime development. Norris Bradbury, who replaced Robert Oppenheimer as director at Los Alamos, felt that...
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    Lawrence and Luis Alvarez came to Los Alamos, where they conferred with Norris Bradbury, the laboratory director, and with George Gamow, Edward Teller, and...
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    director at Livermore was its chairman, and its other members were Norris Bradbury from LASL; Edward Teller and Herbert York from Livermore; Abe Silverstein...
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    worked on the Atlas family of rockets. In 1961, J. Carson Mark and Norris Bradbury offered him a position at Los Alamos, which he held until he retired...
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    of Joseph Milne, whose wife later sold the park to Norris Bradbury, a Royton councillor. Bradbury gifted the park to the people of Royton in 1919 as a...
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    director at Livermore was its chairman, and its other members were Norris Bradbury from LASL; Edward Teller and Herbert York from Livermore; Abe Silverstein...
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    bomb. Permission for this was obtained from the laboratory director, Norris Bradbury. The plan was to detonate a "20-kiloton nuclear bomb, comparable to...
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    deliberation, with opinions sought and obtained from Percival Keith, Norris Bradbury, Darol Froman, Elmer E. Kirkpatrick, Kenneth Nichols and Edward Teller...
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    it easiest to get them through Navy channels. Lieutenant Commander Norris Bradbury said that he did not wish to join Project Y, but was soon on his way...
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    experienced weapons physicists at the Los Alamos Laboratory, led by Norris Bradbury. Wheeler agreed to go to Los Alamos after a conversation with Bohr...
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    1945, and continued to work at Los Alamos under the leadership of Norris Bradbury after World War II ended. He became the leader of the Theoretical Division...
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    the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved September 28, 2014. "Norris Bradbury". Atomic Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on September...
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