Physisict, Politician
Agnew was a member of the scientific team including Luis Alvarez and Lawrence Johnson who were on board the "Great Artiste", the instrumentation aircraft which followed the "Enola Gay" on the mission to bomb Hiroshima in World War II. He was elected to the State Senate of New Mexico, serving as a Democratic Senator from 1955 until 1961. He them served as a scientific adviser to NATO between 1961 and 1964. He was the third director of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1970 until he resigned in 1979 to take over as head of General Atomics.
Agnew was a member of the scientific team including Luis Alvarez and Lawrence Johnson who were on board the "Great Artiste", the instrumentation aircraft which followed the "Enola Gay" on the mission to bomb Hiroshima in World War II. He was elected to the State Senate of New Mexico, serving as a Democratic Senator from 1955 until 1961. He them served as a scientific adviser to NATO between 1961 and 1964. He was the third director of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1970 until he resigned in 1979 to take over as head of General Atomics.
Physisict, Politician
Agnew was a member of the scientific team including Luis Alvarez and Lawrence Johnson who were on board the "Great Artiste", the instrumentation aircraft which followed the "Enola Gay" on the mission to bomb Hiroshima in World War II. He was elected to the State Senate of New Mexico, serving as a Democratic Senator from 1955 until 1961. He them served as a scientific adviser to NATO between 1961 and 1964. He was the third director of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1970 until he resigned in 1979 to take over as head of General Atomics.
Agnew was a member of the scientific team including Luis Alvarez and Lawrence Johnson who were on board the "Great Artiste", the instrumentation aircraft which followed the "Enola Gay" on the mission to bomb Hiroshima in World War II. He was elected to the State Senate of New Mexico, serving as a Democratic Senator from 1955 until 1961. He them served as a scientific adviser to NATO between 1961 and 1964. He was the third director of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1970 until he resigned in 1979 to take over as head of General Atomics.
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