Naval Ordnance Laboratory - People

People

People who have worked there include:

• John Bardeen, the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in Physics.
• John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the first electronic computer, Chief of the NOL Acoustics Division.
• Samuel J. Raff, nuclear physicist, electrical engineer, founding editor of the scientific journal Computers and Operations Research.
• William E. Caswell, physicist and victim of September 11, 2001.
• Henry Earl Singleton, electrical engineer, cofounder of Teledyne, Inc.
• Norm Scofield, inventor of the Scofield-Gold neutron unfolding algorithm which is a method of solving a Fredholm integral equation.
• Sigmund J. Jacobs, inventor of theory for the equation of state of detonation products, the Jacobs-Cowperthwaite-Zwisler(JCZ) equation. Also, was a life fellow of SMPTE for his work in high speed photo imagery. obituary Wikipedia entry describing some of his work Kamlet-Jacobs-Gleichungen Here is another document describing his work written by close colleagues Mr. Detonation Science for DOD: Sigmund J. Jacobs
• Jack W. Wise (1917–2005), worked for the White Oak Laboratory (see alumni site for the WOL below) during WWII, and for NOL from the 1940s on into the late 1960s. During the war, he worked on fuse ruggedization, ship demagnitization. Later, he worked on the Polaris Missile project. Other details uncertain. Would entertain further edits with accurate information.
• I. Lee Reed (1917–1966) worked at the Washington Naval Gun Factory during and after World War II (with a brief transfer to the Navy's new China Lake facility at Inyokern, California in 1946), and moved to NOL in 1951-52, where he was employed for the rest of his life. During the war he worked on the proximity fuse and artillery shells. At NOL he continued this work and was involved with other weapons systems, including the Polaris missile. His work occasionally took him to the testing facilities at White Sands, New Mexico and back to China Lake.
• William J. Buehler. shape memory alloy.