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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norris Bradbury has received more than 254,747 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Norris Bradbury is the 624th most popular physicist (up from 750th in 2019), the 6,145th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,582nd in 2019) and the 131st most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Norris Bradbury ranks 624 out of 851. Before him are Walther Müller, Brian Greene, John Lennard-Jones, Lawrence M. Krauss, Sumio Iijima, and Georges-Louis Le Sage. After him are Michael Green, Antonius van den Broek, Leo Kadanoff, Walter Kaufmann, Giovanni Giorgi, and Charles Kittel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Norris Bradbury ranks 265. Before him are Dorino Serafini, Rodolphe Hiden, Mike Todd, André Bonin, Eugenio Garin, and Zoya Fyodorova. After him are Adolf Šimperský, Marianne Hoppe, David Miller, Hilde Domin, James Agee, and Eudora Welty. Among people deceased in 1997, Norris Bradbury ranks 204. Before him are Robert H. Dicke, Josef Pieper, Joanna Moore, Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Agnieszka Osiecka, and Denver Pyle. After him are Roger Marche, Bobby Helms, Cyril Toumanoff, Marshall Applewhite, Ondino Viera, and Ben Hogan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norris Bradbury ranks 6,145 out of 20,380. Before him are Kirsten Vangsness (1972), Roy Haynes (1925), Edward Robinson (1794), Doug McClure (1935), Bill Johnston (1894), and Liao Zhongkai (1877). After him are Neal McDonough (1966), Talisa Soto (1967), John Cregan (1878), Amiri Baraka (1934), Michael Beck (1949), and Johnny Hayes (1886).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Norris Bradbury ranks 131. Before him are Harry Daghlian (1921), Harold Brown (1927), Harold Agnew (1921), Grote Reber (1911), Brian Greene (1963), and Lawrence M. Krauss (1954). After him are Leo Kadanoff (1937), Charles Kittel (1916), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Victor J. Stenger (1935), Gerald Guralnik (1936), and Charles Stark Draper (1901).

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