Hafstad, Lawrence, 1904-....
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Physicist and government official. Died 1993.
From the description of Papers, 1940-1963. (American Institute of Physics). WorldCat record id: 154306478
Physicist and government official; b. Lawrence Randolph Hafstad.
From the description of Papers, 1940-1963. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70959679
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).
From the description of Papers, 1939-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79918241
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Subjects:
- Military research
- Nuclear energy
- Nuclear reactors
- Nuclear reactors
- Physics
- Proximity fuzes
- Science and state
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- Government consultants
- Government executives
- Physicists
- Physicists
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