Dr. Darol K. Froman, Technical Associate Director, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in 1953
Born
(1906-10-23)October 23, 1906
Harrington, Washington
Died
September 11, 1997(1997-09-11) (aged 90)
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Citizenship
American
Alma mater
University of Alberta (B.Sc. 1926, M.Sc. 1927) University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1930)
Known for
Deputy Director of Los Alamos Laboratory
Awards
a wide range of patents for electrical components and batteries
Scientific career
Fields
Nuclear physics
Institutions
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thesis
A photographic method of determining atomic structure factors(1930)
Doctoral advisor
Arthur Compton
Darol Kenneth Froman (October 23, 1906 – September 11, 1997) was the deputy director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1951 to 1962. He served as a group leader from 1943 to 1945, and a division head from 1945 to 1948. He was the scientific director of the Operation Sandstone nuclear tests at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific in 1948, and assistant director for weapons development from 1949 to 1951.
Darol Kenneth Froman (October 23, 1906 – September 11, 1997) was the deputy director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1951 to 1962. He served...
classified, as was the journal, but this gave it a wider circulation. DarolFroman, the deputy director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL),...
of the wartime division heads had left, but a talented core remained. DarolFroman became head of Robert Bacher's G division, now renamed M Division. Eric...
the Radiation Laboratory at MIT, Edward Teller, Robert F. Christy, Darol K. Froman, Alvin C. Graves and John H. Manley and his group from the Manhattan...
Technology. While still classified, this gave it a wider circulation. DarolFroman, the Deputy Director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL),...
with making instruments for the whole laboratory, and whose head was DarolFroman. Within this group, his close collaborators were William Elmore, William...
technician and a lab helper in the Bomb Physics division. He worked under DarolFroman with twenty other people. As a member of the 9812th Special Engineer...
circuits used to track the progress of an implosion. Along with Frisch, DarolFroman, Rudolf Peierls, Philip Moon and Alvin C. Graves, he developed the "pin...
director on October 14, and Joint Task Force 7's scientific director, Darol K. Froman from the Los Alamos Laboratories, set out with a group of scientists...
leaders he had John H. Williams, Robert R. Wilson, John H. Manley, Darol K. Froman, Emilio G. Segrè, Bruno B. Rossi and Donald W. Kerst. Bacher worked...
S2CID 15586282. Rossi, Bruno; Kenneth Greisen; Joyce C. Stearns; Darol K. Froman; Phillipp G. Koontz (23 March 1942). "Further Measurements of the Mesotron...
Khan, Charles Foster Johnson, Craig Harris, Dan Knight, Danny Gottlieb, Darol Anger, David Benoit, David Torn, Dennis Taylor, Diane Schuur, Dick Oatts...
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