Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Notes
The laboratory at Los Alamos was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Engineer District of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Manhattan Engineer District has itself been established in 1942 to aid the drive toward the completion of an atomic weapon. After the war, the laboratory was turned over to the new U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and renamed the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. The Department of Energy continued to oversee the lab when it replaced the AEC in 1977. The laboratory was renamed Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1981.
Laboratory Directors
Director profiles at the Los Alamos National Laboratory website
- 1943–1945: Robert Oppenheimer
- 1945–1970: Norris Bradbury
- 1970–1979: Harold Agnew
- 1979–1985: Donald Kerr
- 1985–1997: Siegfried Hecker
- 1997–2003: John Browne
- 2003–2005: Peter Nanos
- 2005–2006: Robert Kuckuck
- 2006–2011: Michael Anastasio
- 2011–present: Charles McMillan
Staff
- 1943–1967: Stanislaw Ulam
- 1943–1957: Researcher
- 1957–1967: Research Adviser
- 1944–1959: Frederick Reines, Staff Member and Group Leader
- 1945–1970: Norris Bradbury, Director
- 1946–1947: Val Fitch, Staff Member
- 1949–1952: Edward Teller, Assistant Director
- 1949–1961: Harold Agnew
- 1949–1950: National Research Fellow, Physics Division
- 1951–1953: Assistant to Technical Associate Director
- 1954–1956: Physicist, Theoretical Division
- 1956–1961: Leader, Alternative Weapons Division
- 1950–1956: Marshall Rosenbluth, Staff Member
- 1951–1960: J. Gregory Dash, Staff Member
- 1959–1982: Edward Knapp
- 1959–1968: Group Leader
- 1968–1972: Assistant Division Leader
- 1972–1976: Assistant Leader, Medium Energy Physics Division
- 1976–1977: Alternate Leader, Physics Division
- 1978–1982: Leader, Accelerator Technology Division
- 1964–1979: Harold Agnew
- 1964–1970: Leader, Weapons Nuclear Engineering Division
- 1970–1979: Director
- 1966–1976: Donald Kerr
- 1966–1971: Researcher
- 1971–1973: Group Leader
- 1973–1975: Assistant, Director's Office
- 1975–1976: Alternative Energy Division Leader, Director's Office
- 1967–1985: C. Paul Robinson
- 1967–1970: Staff Member
- 1970–1971: Research Physicist, Advanced Concepts Groups
- 1971–1973: Alternate Group Leader, Chemical Laser Research and Development, Advanced Concepts Groups
- 1973–1976: Director, Laser Isotope Separation Project, Advanced Concepts Groups
- 1976–1980: Leader, Applied Photochemistry Division
- 1980–1985: Associate Director, National Security Programs
- 1968–1970: Siegfried Hecker, Appointee in Metallurgy
- 1968–1981: George "Jay" Keyworth II
- 1968–1974: Researcher
- 1974–1978: Group Leader
- 1978–1980: Leader, Physics Division
- 1980–1981: Leader, Laser Fusion Division
- 1969–1971: Richard Casten, Research Fellow
- 1972–1978: Robert Duffield, Researcher
- 1973–2002: J. David Bowman
- 1973–1993: Staff Member, Nuclear Physics, Meson Physics Facility
- 1993–2002: Staff Member, Physics Division
- 1973–2005: Siegfried Hecker
- 1973–1980: Supervisor, Chemical Materials Science
- 1980–1981: Associate Division Leader
- 1981–1983: Deputy Division Leader
- 1983–1985: Division Leader, Center for Materials Science
- 1985–1986: Chair, Center for Materials Science
- 1986–1997: Director
- 1997–2005: Senior Fellow
- 1974–1982: Mitchell Feigenbaum
- 1974–1981: Staff Member, Theoretical Physics
- 1981–1982: Fellow
- 1974–1982: David Edwards, Physicist
- 1974–1992: David Campbell
- 1974–1977: Oppenheimer Fellow
- 1977–1992: Staff Member, Theoretical Division
- 1977–1985: Wick Haxton, Postdoctoral Staff Member, J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow and Staff Member
- 1978–1980: Robert Wiringa, Research Associate
- 1978–1988: Herbert Anderson, Senior Fellow
- 1979–1985: Donald Kerr, Director
- 1979–2003: John Browne
- 1979–1981: Group Leader, Nuclear Physics
- 1981–1984: Division Leader, Physics
- 1984–1986: Associate Director, Experimental Physics
- 1986–1992: Defense Researcher
- 1992–1993: Computer Science Researcher
- 1993–1997: Program Director, Energy Research
- 1997–2003: Director
- 1979–present: Joel Moss
- 1979–present: Researcher, Physics Division
- 1982–1984: Leader, Nuclear Physics Group
- 1984–1987: Leader, Medium Energy Physics Group
- 1987–1993: Deputy Division Leader, Medium Energy Physics Group
- 1988–1990: Program Director, Nuclear and Partical Physics
- 1981–1985: John Wheatley, Researcher
- 1981–1994: R. G. Hamish Robertson
- 1981–1988: Staff Member
- 1988–1994: Fellow
- 1981–1994: Zachary Fisk, Fellow
- 1981–present: George Zweig
- 1981–1985: Staff Member
- 1985–present: Fellow
- 1982–1992: Albert Clogston, Member, Center for Materials Science
- 1992–present: Hans Frauenfelder
- 1992–1995: Staff Member
- 1995–2003: Director, Center for Nonlinear Studies
- 2003–present: Senior Fellow, Theory Division
- 2002–2005: G. Peter Nanos
- 2002–2003: Principal Deputy Associate Director, Threat Reduction Directorate
- 2003–2005: Director
- 2006–2011: Michael Anastasio, Director
