Bradbury, age 16, on motorbike. Norris Edwin Bradbury (1909-1997), was an American physicist who served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945-70. He took charge at Los Alamos at a difficult time. Staff were leaving in droves and living conditions were poor. He persuaded enough staff to stay, and got the University of California to renew the contract to manage the laboratory. He continued development of nuclear weapons, transforming them from laboratory devices to production models that were safer, more reliable and easier to store and handle. In the 1950s he oversaw the development of thermonuclear weapons and constructed the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility to develop the lab's role in nuclear science. During the Space Race of the 1960s, LANL developed the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA). The Bradbury Science Museum is named in his honour. | |
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