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Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge
(27 Jul 1904 - 14 Jul 1966)
American nuclear physicist who directed the first atom bomb test of the Manhattan Project in 1945.
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Science Quotes by Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge (4 quotes)
I had a feeling of exhilaration that the 'gadget' had gone off properly followed by one of deep relief. I wouldn't have to go to the tower to see what had gone wrong.
— Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1975)
No one who saw it could forget it, a foul and awesome display.
Recounting his memories of the first atom bomb test on 16 Jul 1945.
Recounting his memories of the first atom bomb test on 16 Jul 1945.
— Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge
'A Foul and Awesome Display,' Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists vol. 32, 5 (May 1975), 46. Quoted in Cynthia C. Kelly, Remembering the Manhattan Project: Perspectives on the Making of the Atomic Bomb and its Legacy (2005), 25
by Cynthia C. Kelly
Now we are all sons of bitches.
— Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge
On the first atomic bomb test, (16 Jul 1945) As quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred Freed, The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965) [See Thomas Farrell and J. Robert Oppenheimer].
Now we’re all sons-of-bitches.
— Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge
Remark to Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the first atom bomb test explosion at Alamogordo. As quoted in Lansing Lamont, Day of Trinity (1966), 242.
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- 27 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Bainbridge's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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