Alvin C. Graves, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alvin C. Graves

American physicist

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1909

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 29-Jul-1965

Profession: physicist, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Alvin Cushman Graves (November 4, 1909 – July 28, 1965) was an American nuclear physicist who served at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
After the war, he became the head of J (Test) Division at Los Alamos, and was director or assistant director of numerous nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and 1950s.
Graves was badly injured in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident in Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin, but recovered.