Marshall Holloway, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marshall Holloway

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1912

Place of Birth: Oklahoma, United States

Date of Death: 18-Jun-1991

Profession: physicist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Marshall Holloway

  • Marshall Glecker Holloway (November 23, 1912 – June 18, 1991) was an American physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II.
  • He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946.
  • Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development.
  • In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb.
  • This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year.

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