Lawrence H. Johnston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lawrence H. Johnston

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1918

Place of Birth: Shandong, China

Date of Death: 04-Dec-2011

Profession: physicist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Lawrence Harding "Larry" Johnston (February 11, 1918 – December 4, 2011) was an American physicist, a young contributor to the Manhattan Project.
He was the only man to witness all three atomic explosions in 1945: the Trinity nuclear test and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.During World War II, he worked at the MIT Radiation Laboratory where he invented ground-controlled approach radar.
In 1944, he went to the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, where he co-invented the exploding-bridgewire detonator. After the war he completed his Ph.D.
thesis in 1950, and became an associate professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
He later worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center as head of the electronics department, and was a professor at the University of Idaho in Moscow, where he taught until his retirement.