Norris Bradbury

Norris Bradbury (* May 30, 1909 in Santa Barbara, California, † 20 August 1997 in Los Alamos, New Mexico) was an American physicist.

Bradbury studied at Pomona College (Bachelor 1929) and received his doctorate in 1932 at the University of California, Berkeley on the mobility of ions in gases. As a post-doc, he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1934 assistant professor and later professor at Stanford University, where he was a professor until 1951. 1951 to 1971 he was a professor at Berkeley.

His research was on the areas of electrical conduction in gases and Atmosphärenelektrität.

In the 1940s he worked on the Manhattan Project with.

After the Second World War, Bradbury was on the recommendation of J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He served in this position in 1945 to 1970.

Since 1951 he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1970 he received the Enrico Fermi Award.