Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996.
Kenneth T. Bainbridge papers, 1873-1996.
Includes correspondence, notes (laboratory, student, teaching), manuscripts, interview transcripts, photographs, reprints, clippings, and other papers. The accession relates to Bainbridge's research, teaching, consulting, political, and other interests and activities. He was in charge of the first atomic bomb explosion (Trinity) on July 16, 1945, and there are original and collected materials (e.g. clippings) on the Los Alamos Laboratory, the bomb, and related topics.
Physicist (nuclear physics). Emeritus Leverett Professor Physics at Harvard University 1975-. He designed and built the first cyclotron at Harvard University, participated in the development of radar during World War II, and oversaw the test explosion of the first nuclear bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico in July 1945.
Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996.
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Atomic bomb
Laboratory notes. aat
Class notes. aat
Lecture notes. aat
Photographs. aat
Transcripts. aat
Reprints. aat
Clippings. aat
Trinity Test.
AIP-ICOS
Harvard University. Archives. Pusey Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.