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Norris E. Bradbury
Norris E. Bradbury
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He succeeded J Robert Oppenheimer as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in October 1945 with the unclerstancling that his appointment was an interim one, perhaps only for six months.
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Robert Oppenheimer resigner! as director of the weapons laboratory at Los Alamos.
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hoIc! it only for six months or until atomic energy legislation determining the future of Los Alamos was passed, whichever came first.
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Uncler Bracibury's leaclership, Los Alamos Laboratory expanclec! its objectives to inclucle basic nuclear research, exploring nuclear applications en c!
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In spite of the fact that the major mission of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory was the clevelopment en c! testing of nuclear weapons, Bradbury hoped they would never be user!
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Norris Bradbury took an active interest in Los Alamos, both in his capacity as director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and as a member of the community. He was involved in developing the entire community, including housing, hospital facilities, community services, and schools.
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a professor of physics at the University of California, the operator of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for the Atomic Energy Commission. However, he remainec!
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his laboratory, to a very large degree, for our present nuclear capability." The Atomic Energy Commission's citation was presented to Bracibury in February 1968 as part of the ceremonies observing the laboratory's twenty-fifth anniversary. The citation reacts: Norris Edwin Bradbury: For his contributions as director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to the defense of the United Sates; for his accomplishments as a scientist and administrator in translating basic concepts into practical instruments of national security and peacetime national goals; for his courageous and imaginative leadership after World War II in transforming a temporary wartime installation into an outstanding modern center for research and development; and for his dedicated service both as a Laboratory director and as a private citizen to the Los Alamos community.
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Meade, archivist of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, for his assistance in preparing this manuscript.
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40:524-28. Photoelectric currents in gases between parallel plates as a function of the potential difference.
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Formation of negative ions in gases by electron attachment.
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