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Norris Bradbury

1909 - 1997

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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 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him 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. Bradbury took charge at Los Alamos at a difficult time. Staff were leaving in droves, living conditions were poor and there was a possibility that the laboratory would close. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Norris Bradbury is the 675th most popular physicist (down from 625th in 2019), the 7,633rd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,144th in 2019) and the 146th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Norris Bradbury ranks 675 out of 851. Before him are Brandon Carter, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Stanley Mandelstam, Ali Javan, Orest Khvolson, and Alvin M. Weinberg. After him are Edward Andrade, Francis Hauksbee, Lisa Randall, Ralph Kronig, Hertha Sponer, and Gregory Breit.

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Among people born in 1909, Norris Bradbury ranks 299. Before him are Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Emmett Toppino, Zoya Fyodorova, Ashapurna Devi, Georges Verriest, and Wilhelm Müller. After him are Jaú, Xie Fuzhi, Godfrey Rampling, Karel Burkert, Ernesto Belis, and Michael Rennie. Among people deceased in 1997, Norris Bradbury ranks 227. Before him are Enrique Peralta Azurdia, Eugène Guillevic, Dharamvir Bharati, Zdeněk Mlynář, Shuhei Nishida, and Kiki Kogelnik. After him are Cheddi Jagan, Laura Nyro, Billie Dove, Julian Jaynes, Eddie Chapman, and Jean Dréville.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norris Bradbury ranks 7,635 out of 20,380. Before him are Joe Kennedy III (1980), Sidney Johnson (1877), Margaret O'Brien (1937), Charles A. Beard (1874), Tracey Walter (1947), and William Dwight Whitney (1827). After him are Jon Gries (1957), Frankie Knuckles (1955), Juanita Moore (1914), Christopher Landon (1975), Michelle Akers (1966), and Roger E. Mosley (1938).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Norris Bradbury ranks 146. Before him are William Higinbotham (1910), Edward Condon (1902), Brian Greene (1963), Seth Neddermeyer (1907), Edith Clarke (1883), and Alvin M. Weinberg (1915). After him are Lisa Randall (1962), Edwin H. Land (1909), Leo Kadanoff (1937), John C. Slater (1900), Frederick Seitz (1911), and Sarah Frances Whiting (1847).

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