Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996
Oral history interview with Kenneth Bainbridge, 1991 June 10.
Bainbridge describes his research at General Electric, Cavendish Laboratories, and Harvard University before Rad Lab. He recounts his introduction to radar and the early planning stages of Rad Lab. He discusses the roles of Vannevar Bush, Edward Bowles, I. I. Rabi, Lee DuBridge, and Wheeler Loomis in the organization of the program. Bainbridge explains his involvement as a session chairman of the Applied Nuclear Physics Conference in October 1940. He describes his work on the SM, MEW, ASM and shares the details of his assignment as a British liaison. He discusses the communications between Rad Lab and various branches of the military. He also addresses the magnetron and its role in radar development, his working relationship with John Cockcroft, E. G. "Taffy" Bowen, and ultimately, his transition to Los Alamos in 1943.
Nuclear physicist. Professor of physics, Harvard University from 1934. Member of the Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1940-1945.
Bowen, E. G.
Bowles, Edward Lindley, 1897-1990
Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974
Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Loomis, F. W. (Francis Wheeler), 1889-1976
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory
Radar -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Radar.
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Bryant, John H. interviewer.
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