| Found in | Norris Bradbury, 1909-1997, 2006: CIP t.p. (Norris Bradbury) galley (born May 30, 1909, in Santa Barbara, Calif.; served as a commander in the US Navy; arrived in Los Alamos in July 1944 to work on the Manhattan Project, the crash program to build the world's first atomic weapons. He was in charge of assembling the nonnuclear components for the world's first nuclear explosion, which occurred at Trinity Site in southern New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Served as Director of the Los Alamos Scientific (and later National) Laboratory for 25 years, 1945-1970; replacing its first director J. Robert Oppenheimer. Died in August 1997)
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