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    Harold Melvin Agnew (March 28, 1921 – September 29, 2013) was an American physicist, best known for having flown as a scientific observer on the Hiroshima...
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    inserted the final uranium slugs. The Chicago Pile 1 Pioneers were: Harold Agnew, Herbert L. Anderson, Wayne Arnold, Hugh M. Barton, Thomas Brill, Robert...
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    retired as director of Los Alamos Laboratory in 1970. His successor, Harold Agnew, invited him to become a senior consultant, but Bradbury declined the...
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  • B. Agnew (1868–1941), New York politician Harold Agnew (1921–2013) American physicist Jamal Agnew (born 1995), American football player James Agnew (1815–1901)...
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    of the bomb on the Japanese. Data had been collected by Luis Alvarez, Harold Agnew, and Lawrence H. Johnston on the instrument plane, The Great Artiste...
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    members of Project Alberta flew on the Hiroshima mission. Luis Alvarez, Harold Agnew and Lawrence H. Johnston were on the instrument plane The Great Artiste...
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    Los Alamos Laboratory and the head of Project Alberta; Luis Alvarez, Harold Agnew, Bernard Waldman, Wolfgang Panofsky, and William Penney. The overcast...
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    B-29 Superfortress that also carried fellow Project Alberta members Harold Agnew and Deak Parsons (who were respectively commissioned at the rank of captain)...
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  • it was sold to a company owned by Neal Blue and Linden Blue. In 1979, Harold Agnew was appointed President and CEO of the company. In 1987, former US Navy...
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    Academic advisors Max Born Paul Ehrenfest Luigi Puccianti Doctoral students Harold Agnew Edoardo Amaldi Owen Chamberlain Geoffrey Chew Mildred Dresselhaus Jerome...
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    Project Alberta observers aboard for Hiroshima mission: Luis Alvarez Harold Agnew Lawrence H. Johnston Ground crew: Chester V. Pawlack Charles B. Rinard...
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    first nuclear chain reaction leading to the development of the bomb. Harold Agnew, physicist and third director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (1970-1979)...
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    billion. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1942–1945) Norris Bradbury (1945–1970) Harold Agnew (1970–1979) Donald Kerr (1979–1986) Siegfried S. Hecker (1986–1997) John...
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    hands on the weapons can't use them without proper authorization. — Harold Agnew, former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory In November 2007,...
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  • navigator, were on board the Enola Gay during the bombing missions. Harold Agnew joined them as a scientific observer during the Hiroshima mission. Lawrence...
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    there were two lines of investigation into nuclear reactor technology: Harold Urey researched heavy water at Columbia, while Arthur Compton organized...
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    in 1971, and grew up in Northern California. He is the grandson of Harold Agnew. Owens graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993...
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    Ebinger 2006, pp. 89–90. Hewlett & Duncan 1969, p. 43. Agnew & Schreiber 1998, p. 3. Agnew, Harold; Schreiber, Raemer E. (1998). Norris E. Bradbury 1909–1996:...
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  • Chairman) Herbert Agar (writer, editor of The Louisville Courier-Journal) Harold Agnew (physicist, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory) Umberto Agnelli...
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    aircraft immediately before their bombing mission of Hiroshima. Left to right: Big Stink, The Great Artiste, and Enola Gay. Photo by Harold Agnew 1945...
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  • 1919 – Vic Raschi, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988) 1921 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and academic (d. 2013) 1921 – Dirk Bogarde, English...
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    Charles Townes, Nobel winner as the co-inventor of the maser and laser, Harold Agnew, former director of LANL, and chaired by Edward Frieman, vice president...
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    raised elsewhere who have lived in Denver as adults are marked with a #. Harold Agnew (1921–2013), physicist Hal Anger (1920–2005), electrical engineer, biophysicist...
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  • 2012 – Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (b. 1947) 2013 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and engineer (b. 1921) 2013 – S. N. Goenka, Indian...
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    the Ivy Mike test, Wallace Leland and Harold Agnew put a shark in Holloway's bed. "He never said anything," Agnew recalled, "but after that he was much...
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    Campbell, who supported the change and donated $30,000 toward its cost. Harold Agnew, American Physicist Janet Bonnema, first woman allowed to enter a tunnel...
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  • McPherson was born in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, the third son of Harold Agnew McPherson, an executive of Union Carbide Corporation, and of his wife...
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  • Peter Garnett Agnew, 1st Baronet (9 July 1900 – 26 August 1990) was an officer in the Royal Navy and a Conservative Party politician. Agnew was born in...
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    scientists into the Manhattan Project, including his former student Harold Agnew, who went on to become the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory...
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    herpetologist known for popular field guides (born 1915). 26 September – Harold Agnew, American physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project (born 1921). 2 October...
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