Bainbridge, Kenneth Tompkins 1904- . US
physicist, who was director of the first
atomic bomb test at Alamogordo, New Mexico,
in 1945. Bainbridge worked at the Cavendish
Laboratory, Cambridge, England, in the 1930s.
He also carried out research in radar. From
1961 he was George Vasmer Everett Professor
of Physics at Harvard University.