Norris Bradbury

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Norris Bradbury

Norris Edwin Bradbury (born May 30, 1909 in Santa Barbara , California , † August 20, 1997 in Los Alamos , New Mexico ) was an American physicist .

Bradbury studied at Pomona College (Bachelor in 1929) and received his PhD in 1932 from the University of California, Berkeley on the mobility of ions in gases. As a post-doc he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1934 Assistant Professor and later Professor at Stanford University , where he was a professor until 1951. 1951 to 1971 he was a professor at Berkeley.

His research was in the fields of electricity conduction in gases and atmospheric electricity.

In the 1940s he worked on the Manhattan Project . He was responsible for the final assembly of the atomic bomb in the Trinity test in 1945.

After the Second World War, Bradbury became director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1945 on the recommendation of J. Robert Oppenheimer , which he remained until 1970.

In 1936 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . Since 1951 he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences . In 1970 he received the Enrico Fermi Prize .

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