caption death_date death_place work_institution birth_place citizenship image_size name field birth_date known_for image article_title birth_name alma_mater
raemer schreiber 's los alamos laboratory id 24 december 1998 los alamos , new mexico los alamos national laboratory mcminnville , oregon united states 240 px raemer schreiber physics 11 november 1910 nuclear rocket propulsion file : raemer e. schreiber los alamos id.png raemer schreiber
 raemer edgar schreiber linfield oregon -lrb- m.a. , 1932 -rrb- purdue university -lrb- ph.d. college , 1941 -rrb- -lrb- b.a. , 1931 -rrb- university of
raemer schreiber

raemer edgar schreiber -lrb- november 11 , 1910 -- december 24 , 1998 -rrb- was an american physicist from mcminnville , oregon who served los alamos national laboratory during world war ii , participating in the development of the atomic bomb .
he saw the first one detonated in the trinity nuclear test in july 1945 , and prepared the fat man bomb that was used in the bombing of nagasaki .
after the war , he served at los alamos as a group leader , and was involved in the design of the hydrogen bomb .
in 1955 , he became the head of its nuclear rocket propulsion -lrb- n -rrb- division , which developed the first nuclear-powered rockets .
he served as deputy director of the laboratory from 1972 until his retirement in 1974 .
