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Norris Bradbury
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Norris Bradbury
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| Born | 30 May 1909 |
| Died | 20 August 1997 (aged 88) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Pomona College BA University of California, Berkeley PhD |
| Known for | Succeeded J. Robert Oppenheimer as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Awards | Legion of Merit (1945) Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service (1966) Enrico Fermi Award (1970) |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Stanford University University of California Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Thesis | Studies on the mobility of gaseous ions (1932) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leonard B. Loeb |
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Norris Edwin Bradbury (30 May 1909 – 20 August 1997), was an American physicist. He served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He replaced Robert Oppenheimer. Bradbury worked with Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Bradbury was in charge of the final assembly of "the Gadget", detonated in July 1945 for the Trinity test.
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Trinity Test, July 1945. Bradbury stands next to the partially assembled Gadget atop the test tower.
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Bradbury (left) sits at a table with Leslie Groves of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (center) and Eric Jette
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Bradbury (left) in front of the Kiwi B4-A reactor used to power a nuclear rocket
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Bradbury with his predecessor Robert Oppenheimer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1964
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