Morris Jeppson
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.030992
It’s the birthday of Morris Jeppson, who was born in 1922 in Logan, Utah. Jeppson studied physics at the University of Nevada. In 1942 in joined the US Army Air Corps, which set him to Yale, Harvard and MIT to receive training in electrical engineering. His next assignment was to Wendover Air Force Base in Utah, where he worked on firing mechanisms for the Manhattan Project. On 6 August 1945 he was aboard the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Jeppson’s role as assistant weaponeer was to arm the bomb. After the war he continued working on nuclear weapons, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He died in 2010.
Date in History: 23 June 1922