Kenneth Bainbridge
Physicist, Academic
1904 – 1996
Who was Kenneth Bainbridge?
Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge was an American physicist at Harvard University who did work on cyclotron research. His precise 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. Bainbridge described the Trinity explosion a "foul and awesome display". He remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches." This marked the beginning of his dedication to ending the testing of nuclear weapons and to efforts to maintain civilian control of future developments in that field.
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- Born
- Jul 27, 1904
Cooperstown - Also known as
- Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- PhD, Princeton University
Physics
( - 1929)
- Lived in
- Lexington
( - 1996/07/14)
- Lexington
- Died
- Jul 14, 1996
Lexington
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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