BIOGRAPHIES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PANEL OF DISTINGUISHED SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS

摘要

Stirling A. Colgate, an associate staff member and senior fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, earned his BA and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Cornell University. He initially worked on accelerator physics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining LLNL at its inception. There he led the fast diagnostics for the weapons test for LLNL as well as LANL for the Castle tests, including the Bravo test in the Pacific in 1954. He then led the helical magnetic fusion confinement program at LLNL for 8 years, started the laser inertial fusion laser program, and initiated calculations of stellar collapse and supernova explosions. In 1959 he became Consultant to the US State Department for the treaty on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons Tests. In 1964 he became President of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, working in atmospheric physics and astrophysics, and astronomy. He joined LLNL in 1976 becoming a group leader in astrophysics and fusion. Research Interests: Nuclear physics (diagnostics and fusion plasma confinement), astrophysics (supernovae, quasars, cosmic rays, solar physics), atmospheric physics (tornadoes, thunderstorms), geotectonic engineering, epidemiology, human complexity.