Mother's Day tribute: Remembering mom of baby 'Trinity'

Technical Report · Wed Apr 28 04:00:00 EDT 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1781348· OSTI ID:1781348

Steeves, Brye Ann ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

For Elizabeth “Diz” Graves, the summer months of 1945 were a symbolic intersection of her personal and professional lives. As a physicist with the then-secret lab in Los Alamos, Elizabeth participated in the Trinity test - the successful detonation of the world’s first nuclear weapon, which took place in the remote New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. Her role was to observe the explosion that advanced science into the Atomic Age, according to records in the National Security Research Center (NSRC). This is the Lab’s classified library, which also houses unclassified legacy materials. And, Elizabeth was seven months pregnant.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: 89233218CNA000001
• OSTI ID: 1781348
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--21-24138
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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