Norman Hilberry
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Norman Hilberry (March 11, 1899 – March 28, 1986) was an American physicist, best known as the director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1956 to 1961. In December 1942 he was the man who stood ready with an axe to cut the scram line during the start up of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor to achieve criticality.
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Norman Hilberry | |
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Born | Horace van Norman Hilberry (1899-03-11)March 11, 1899 |
Died | March 28, 1986(1986-03-28) (aged 87) |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | Oberlin College, A.B. University of Chicago Ph.D. |
Known for | Director of Argonne National Laboratory |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | New York University Argonne National Laboratory University of Arizona |
Thesis | Extensive cosmic-ray showers and the energy distribution of the primary cosmic rays (1941) |
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