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Kenneth Bainbridge

1904 - 1996

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Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge (July 27, 1904 – July 14, 1996) was an American physicist at Harvard University who worked on cyclotron research. His accurate measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert Einstein's mass–energy equivalence concept. He was the Director of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test, which took place July 16, 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth Bainbridge has received more than 688,757 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Kenneth Bainbridge is the 566th most popular physicist, the 5,082nd most popular biography from United States and the 114th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Kenneth Bainbridge ranks 566 out of 851. Before him are Pierre Weiss, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Matvei Bronstein, Frank J. Tipler, Emil Warburg, and Woldemar Voigt. After him are August Beer, Carl August von Steinheil, Vladimir Veksler, Nicholas Kurti, Alexis Thérèse Petit, and Otto Lehmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Kenneth Bainbridge ranks 195. Before him are Srečko Kosovel, Bill Brandt, Bobbie Rosenfeld, Henry Russell, Ladislav Ženíšek, and Clarence Nash. After him are Grete Stern, Edgar G. Ulmer, Balys Dvarionas, Valentín González, Lili Damita, and Richard Addinsell. Among people deceased in 1996, Kenneth Bainbridge ranks 175. Before him are Dorothy Lamour, Akram al-Hawrani, Joanne Dru, Laurens van der Post, Gottfried von Einem, and George Burns. After him are Rob Hall, George Kojac, Veronica Guerin, Eno Raud, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, and Andrey Lukanov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kenneth Bainbridge ranks 5,082 out of 20,380. Before him are James B. Conant (1893), Kevin Schwantz (1964), Stephen Breyer (1938), Edgar Leonard (1881), J. E. B. Stuart (1833), and Hunter Biden (1970). After him are Brent Scowcroft (1925), Vincent J. McMahon (1914), Deborah Lipstadt (1947), Tony Williams (1945), Evelyn Ashford (1957), and Charlie Mariano (1923).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Kenneth Bainbridge ranks 114. Before him are Bryce DeWitt (1923), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), Norman Holter (1914), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), John G. Trump (1907), and Frank J. Tipler (1947). After him are Charles W. Misner (1932), William D. Coolidge (1873), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Clyde Cowan (1919), Joan Feynman (1927), and Seth Neddermeyer (1907).

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