Alvin C. Graves

Alvin C. Graves
Born	(1909-11-04)November 4, 1909 Washington, D.C., US
Died	July 28, 1965(1965-07-28) (aged 55) Del Norte, Colorado, US
Alma mater	University of Virginia University of Chicago
Occupation	Physicist
Known for	Nuclear testing
Spouse	Elizabeth Riddle Graves
Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear physics
Institutions	University of Chicago University of Texas Metallurgical Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thesis	Packing Fraction Differences Among Heavy Elements (1939)
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Jeffrey Dempster[citation needed]

Alvin Cushman Graves (November 4, 1909 – July 28, 1965) was an American nuclear physicist who served at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. After the war, he became the head of the J (Test) Division at Los Alamos and was director or assistant director of numerous nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and 1950s. Graves was severely injured in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident in Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin, but recovered.