In 1936 Williams was employed by the physics faculty at the University of Florida in Gainesville ; he taught there until 1941 . From 1941 through 1943 he participated in radar development at MIT ’s radiation laboratory , then was moved to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to work on the atomic bomb . The galvanometers he designed were used to measure the thermal radiation produced during the Trinity test in July 1945 . He remained with Los Alamos until 1946
Trinity test
Trinity (nuclear test)
Dudley Williams (physicist)