Raemer Schreiber
American nuclear physicist (1910–1998) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Raemer Edgar Schreiber (November 11, 1910 – December 24, 1998) was an American physicist from McMinnville, Oregon who served Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II, participating in the development of the atomic bomb. He saw the first one detonated in the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki. After the war, he served at Los Alamos as a group leader, and was involved in the design of the hydrogen bomb. In 1955, he became the head of its Nuclear Rocket Propulsion (N) Division, which developed the first nuclear-powered rockets. He served as deputy director of the laboratory from 1972 until his retirement in 1974.
Raemer Schreiber | |
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Born | Raemer Edgar Schreiber (1910-11-11)November 11, 1910 |
Died | December 24, 1998(1998-12-24) (aged 88) |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Linfield College (B.A., 1931) University of Oregon (M.A., 1932) Purdue University (Ph.D., 1941) |
Known for | Nuclear rocket propulsion |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory |