What was Edwin McMillan's position in the Radiation Laboratory in 1954?
Associate director
Head of Research
Principal Scientist
Laboratory Assistant
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Edwin McMillan was the associate director of the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley in 1954. He had previously been the laboratory's director from 1945 to 1954. The Radiation Laboratory was a major center for nuclear physics research during the 1940s and 1950s. McMillan was a Nobel Prize winner in physics for his work on the discovery of the element plutonium.
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