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guaje pines cemetery , los alamos , new mexico 1939 29 july 1965 del norte , colorado washington , d.c. american packing fraction differences among heavy elements nuclear physics university alamos national laboratory of chicago university of texas metallurgical laboratory los 4 november 1909 http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/physrev.55.863 nuclear testing elizabeth riddle graves alvin c. graves.jpg alvin c. graves
 alvin c. graves physicist university of virginia university of chicago
alvin c. graves

alvin cushman graves -lrb- november 4 , 1909 -- july 19 , 1965 -rrb- 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 -lrb- test -rrb- 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 .
