Hugh Bradner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hugh Bradner

American physicist

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1915

Place of Birth: Tonopah, Nevada, United States

Date of Death: 05-May-2008

Profession: physicist, inventor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Hugh Bradner

  • 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.
  • There, he worked with scientists including Luis Alvarez, John von Neumann and George Kistiakowsky on the development of the high explosives and exploding-bridgewire detonators required by atomic bombs. After the war, Bradner took a position studying high-energy physics at the University of California, Berkeley, under Luis Alvarez.
  • Bradner investigated the problems encountered by frogmen staying in cold water for long periods of time.
  • He developed a neoprene suit which could trap the water between the body and the neoprene, and thereby keep them warm.
  • He became known as the "father of the wetsuit."Bradner worked on the 1951 Operation Greenhouse nuclear test series on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
  • 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.

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