Mar 11, 1899Cleveland, Ohio, United StatesDied on 28 Mar 1986 (aged 87)Pisces
About Norman Hilberry
Norman Hilberry (March 11, 1899 – March 28, 1986) was an American physicist, best known as the director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1956 to 1961.
In December 1942 he was the man who stood ready with an axe to cut the scram line during the start up of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor to achieve criticality.