Lawrence M. Langer | |
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 Langer's Los Alamos badge | |
| Born | Lawrence Marvin Langer December 22, 1913 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | January 17, 2000 (aged 86) Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. |
| Alma mater | New York University (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear physics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Shape of the beta ray distribution curve of radium E at high energies (1937) |
| Doctoral advisor | Allan C. G. Mitchell |
Lawrence Marvin Langer (22 December 1913 – 17 January 2000) was a nuclear physicist and a group leader of the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[1] He oversaw the final assembly of the first atomic bomb on the Pacific Island of Tinian and slept on the bomb itself the night before it was dropped. He also developed sonar and radar detectors during World War II and worked on the "gun" mechanism used to detonate the Uranium-235 bomb used on Hiroshima.[1]
- ^ a b Emery, Guy T.; Hamilton, Joseph H.; Bacher, Andrew D. (1 March 2001). "Lawrence Marvin Langer". Physics Today. 54 (3): 96–98. doi:10.1063/1.1366080.