Marshall Holloway
American physicist (1912–1991) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marshall Glecker Holloway (November 23, 1912 – June 18, 1991) was an American physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year.
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Marshall Holloway | |
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Born | (1912-11-23)November 23, 1912 |
Died | June 18, 1991(1991-06-18) (aged 78) |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of Florida Cornell University |
Known for | Hydrogen bomb |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Nuclear physics |
Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
Thesis | Range and Specific Ionization of Alpha Particles (1938) |
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