Norris Bradbury facts for kids

**Norris Bradbury**
Norris Bradbury
	Norris Bradbury
Born	30 May 1909; Santa Barbara, California
Died	20 August 1997 (aged 88); Los Alamos, New Mexico;
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Stanford University; University of California; Los Alamos National Laboratory
Alma mater	Pomona College BA; University of California, Berkeley PhD
Doctoral advisor	Leonard B. Loeb
Known for	Succeeded J. Robert Oppenheimer as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
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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.
Bradbury (left) sits at a table with Leslie Groves of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (center) and Eric Jette
Bradbury (left) in front of the Kiwi B4-A reactor used to power a nuclear rocket
Bradbury with his predecessor Robert Oppenheimer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1964