Researching Charles Critchfield
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 80 people with the Critchfield surname? In that year Critchfield was ranked number 3499 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Charles means "Man, strong" and is of German origin.
Records of Charles Critchfield on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Charles Critchfield and the Critchfield Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 98 people with the Critchfield surname in the UK? Critchfield is now ranked number 3950 for popularity in the UK. |
Critchfield Family Tree Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Critchfield surname in the USA? Critchfield is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Charles Critchfield
Charles Critchfield
Charles Louis Critchfield (June 7, 1910 – February 12, 1994) was an American mathematical physicist. A graduate of George Washington University, where he earned his PhD in Physics under the direction of Edward Teller in 1939, he conducted research in ballistics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Ballistic Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, and received three patents for improved sabot designs.
In 1943, Teller and Robert Oppenheimer persuaded Critchfield to come to the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he joined the Ordnance Division under Captain William Parsons on the gun-type fission weapons, Little Boy and Thin Man. After it was discovered that the Thin Man design would not work, he was transferred to Robert Bacher's Gadget Division as the leader of the Initiator group, which was responsible for the design and testing of the "Urchin" neutron initiator that provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.
After the war he became a professor at the University of Minnesota, and then vice president for research at the Convair division of General Dynamics, where he worked on the Atlas family of rockets. In 1961, J. Carson Mark and Norris Bradbury offered him a position at Los Alamos, which he held until he retired in 1977.
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