november december american physicist oregon served world war participating development atomic bomb saw detonated trinity nuclear test july prepared fat man bomb bombing nagasaki war served group leader involved design hydrogen bomb head nuclear rocket propulsion division developed nuclear powered rockets served deputy director laboratory retirement early life born oregon november son née educated high school entered physics mathematics received bachelor_of_arts degree earned master arts degree married french major daughters graduate assistant instructor awarded writing thesis investigation nuclear reactions scattering produced thesis constructed generator originally intended discuss possibilities studying crystals possible development nuclear produced large quantities high energy discovery nuclear interested phenomenon oriented thesis study emitted manhattan_project researcher participated early work manhattan_project university joined moved new_mexico wife month old daughter worked water boiler group headed consisted mainly people working calculations super bomb group designed built water boiler commenced operation intended laboratory instrument test critical mass calculations effect materials use enriched fuel use liquid fuel form dissolved water worked improved designs april transferred division member pit assembly team trinity nuclear test observed explosion july days later lieutenant colonel official collected pit carried case took boarded transport plane july days later arrived pacific island helped assemble fat man bomb bombing nagasaki august comparing tokyo bombers killed people night march noted fact thing airplane bomb proved efficiency didn change effect bombing bringing japan knees shock effect airplane able city think finally convinced japanese military later career war remained group leader assignment ready bombs nuclear tests bikini pacific preparations witnessed accident exposed fatal dose radiation experiment pits slipped core went critical die radiation poisoning days later quick reaction saved lives room demon core remote handling dangerous substances designed remote control machines perform experiments personnel quarter mile distance went lead pit teams bikini june july associate leader head division time worked development hydrogen bomb charge pit crew ivy mike nuclear test pacific test device veteran impressed tnt explosion filled sky recalled awesome went head division responsible developed nuclear rocket engines required deep space exploration oversaw successful test nuclear rocket engine capacity greeted president president visit year technical associate director responsibility entire nuclear rocket propulsion program deputy director served member nasa retirement retired remained consultant served member laboratory late 1980s assisted publication technical history years helped reviewing history medical studies laboratory bought property late 1940s built home weekends lived returned died home december survived wife daughters sister anna laboratory named conference room honor
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