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Agnew, Harold M

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Personal name headingAgnew, Harold M.
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Birth date19210328
Death date20130929
Place of birthDenver (Colo.)
Place of deathSolana Beach (Calif.)
AffiliationLos Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
University of Chicago
Profession or occupationPhysicist
Found innuc89-2720: Die Zukunft der Kernenergie, 1982 (hdg. on CSt rept.: Agnew, Harold M.; usage: Harold M. Agnew)
New York times (online), viewed Oct. 18, 2013 (in obituary published Oct. 1: Harold M. Agnew; b. Harold Melvin Agnew, Mar. 28, 1921, Denver; d. Sunday [Sept. 29, 2013], Solana Beach, Calif., aged 92; last surviving major figure to have been present at the birth of the nuclear age; physicist who helped build the world's first reactor and atomic bombs, flew on the first atomic strike against Japan, filmed the mushroom cloud, helped perfect the hydrogen bomb, and led the Los Alamos National Laboratory at the height of the Cold War)
Associated languageeng