| LC control no. | n 85173493 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bradner, Hugh, 1915-2008 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1915-11-05 |
| Death date | 2008-05-05 |
| Place of birth | Tonopah (Nev.) |
| Place of death | San Diego (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Oceanography |
| Affiliation | University of California, Berkeley Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists Geophysicists College teachers |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Univ. of Calif., San Diego. Scripps Instit. of Oceanography, La Jolla for His Papers, 1938-1981 (Hugh Bradner, 1915- ; physicist) Amer. Men and Women of Sci., 1982 (Bradner, Hugh; b. 1915) UC San Diego news center, May 8, 2008: (Hugh Bradner, renowned physicist and professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, died May 5, 2008, in San Diego, Calif. after a prolonged illness. He was 92 years old) <http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/05-08HughBradner.asp> Wikipedia, Jan. 3, 2020 (Hugh Bradner (November 5, 1915 - May 5, 2008) was an American physicist at the University of California who is credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit, which helped to revolutionize scuba diving; A graduate of Ohio's Miami University, he received his doctorate from California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, in 1941. He worked at the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory during World War II, where he researched naval mines. In 1943, he was recruited by Robert Oppenheimer to join the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory; After the war, Bradner took a position studying high-energy physics at the University of California, Berkeley; He joined the Scripps Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics as a geophysicist in 1961. He remained there for the rest of his career, becoming a full professor in 1963, and retiring in 1980. In retirement, continued to work both on oceanographic research, as well as on the DUMAND deep ocean neutrino astronomy project; born in Tonopah, Nevada; died in San Diego, California) |
| Associated language | eng |
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