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Hafstad, Lawrence Randolph, 1904-
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Physicist and government official. Died 1993.
Physicist and government official; b. Lawrence Randolph Hafstad.
Lawrence Randolph Hafstad (1904-1993). Physicist and government official. B.S. from Minnesota (1926) and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins (1933). Hafstad worked as a research scientist at Carnegie Institution of Washington (1928-1941); on a scientific team at the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins (during World War II). Hafstad was also the Executive Secretary of the Joint Research Development Board, Office of Defense, of the Secretary of the Navy (1947-1949); Director of Reactor Development, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1949-1955); Director of Atomic Energy Division, Chase Manhattan Bank (1955); and Vice President of General Motors Corporation in charge of research laboratories (1955-1969).
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