He was a member of the Columbia University team which was the first in the United States to verify the European discovery of the nuclear fission of uranium via neutron bombardment .
G. Norris Glasoe ( 29 October 1902 -- May 1987 ) was an American nuclear physicist .
G. Norris Glasoe was a physicist of the Columbia University team which was the first in the American   to verify the European discovery of the nuclear fission of uranium via neutron bombardment .
G. Norris Glasoe ( 29 October 1902 -- May 1987 ) was an American nuclear physicist .