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Kenneth Bainbridge

Kenneth BainbridgeAKA Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge

Born: 27-Jul-1904
Birthplace: Cooperstown, NY
Died: 14-Jul-1996
Location of death: Lexington, MA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Director of the Trinity atomic test

Wife: Margaret Pitkin ("Peg", m. 1931, d. 1967, one son, two daughters)
Son: Martin Keeler Bainbridge (b. 1933, d.)
Daughter: Joan Bainbridge Safford (attorney)
Daughter: Margaret Tompkins Bainbridge Robinson
Wife: Helen Brinkley King (m. 1969, d., until her death)

    University: Horace Mann High School
    University: SB and SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    University: PhD, Princeton University
    Professor: Harvard University (1934-76)

    Manhattan Project
    Guggenheim Fellowship 1933-34
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1938
    National Academy of Sciences 1946


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