케네스 베인브리지

소개

케네스 톰킨스 베인브리지(Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, 1904년 7월 27일 ~ 1996년 7월 14일)는 사이클로트론을 연구한 하버드 대학교의 미국인 물리학자로서 세계 최초의 핵실험인 트리니티 실험을 주도했던 것으로 유명하다.

Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge was an American physicist at Harvard University who worked on cyclotron research. His accurate measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert Einstein's mass–energy equivalence concept. He was the Director of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge described the Trinity explosion as a "foul and awesome display". He remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches." This marked the beginning of his dedication to ending the testing of nuclear weapons and to efforts to maintain civilian control of future developments in that field.