january june american physicist worked manhattan_project world war war professor physics vice president research general published papers physics mathematics science policy held patents relating nuclear energy graduate helped princeton_university build world war worked nuclear design designing cooling system water cooled led group studied elements designs october moved group leader war ended accepted offer come head returned evaluate fusion program accepted offer vice president director pure applied science general leadership developed nuclear universities laboratories served assistant director director honolulu took particular interest museum preparation manual flowering plants hawaii early life born january beaver dam wisconsin son high school history teacher general science teacher older brothers john jim younger sister family moved wisconsin monroe wisconsin wisconsin played number musical instruments including played school bands played tenor dance orchestra called school orchestra monroe played left guard american football teams monroe expressed interest chemistry biology geology photography graduating took job local bank brother john graduated degree electrical engineering persuaded college john suggested aren sure science want physics basic later recalled best advice got entered studied mathematics physics money scarce great depression especially father died pay bills worked short order cook took job taking care physics laboratory equipment senior year taught physics laboratory classes encountered members faculty including gave research project junior year remained wisconsin graduate student receiving degree working upgrading generator question suggested previously observed high energy gamma rays produced bombarded wrote doctor philosophy thesis resonance scattering supervision married mathematics student wisconsin sister september couple children sons michael daughter moved princeton_university soon received offer princeton given inch build wanted help operational later recalled day princeton invited short report thesis work usually speakers journal club meetings time speakers program giants scientific accomplishments breathtaking meeting began sponsor asked met took sitting tennis shoes said professor come work great man held hand big dinner plate said voice glad meet managed glad meet electrified audience news europe discovery nuclear rushed confirm results built chamber linear radio vacuum tubes coffee cans motorcycle batteries apparatus princeton able confirm results world war early years world war led princeton group series experiments involving tons early concentrated manhattan_project teams working nuclear design including team princeton university_of_chicago conduct actual research hired work led included gale young group task design convert time existed paper gone critical july chose conservative design water cooling choice water controversial time water known absorb reducing efficiency confident group calculations correct water work technical difficulties involved liquid metal delay project working seven days week group designed september january studied metals water cooled system designed cooling system patent design issued young group leader conducted studies rods group looked process metals contact fast flowing processes aluminium investigated preparation later activities group reduced time taken produce years discovery spontaneous bred contamination led propose switching breeding challenge met developing type nuclear weapon design october moved group leader responsible explosive lens design preliminary testing difficulties encountered testing lenses led construction special test area responsible testing preparation trinity nuclear test conducted test nuclear material test brought bad news indicate trinity test fail worked night assess results able report results consistent perfect explosion later life war ended accepted offer come associate professor help create nuclear physics group turn recruited number young worked princeton manhattan_project chicago including funding built near pennsylvania time forefront research nuclear physics allowing study recently discovered visiting scholar created photographic professor head head member consultant addition work nuclear physics cultivated flowers home published papers floral species named varieties children paper published rare flower found island french travelled times translated grammar language french english family served hosts time young people spent year evaluating fusion program approached recruited join general division moved california vice president concurrently director pure applied science member general science leadership developed small universities laboratories fuel large prompt negative fuel temperature temperature core increases rapidly decreases highly unlikely completely impossible nuclear occur safety reliability allows installed densely populated areas ability generate high energy brief periods particularly useful research world popular research sold countries high temperature gas cooled successful power built united_states demonstration unit peach nuclear generating station pennsylvania operated successfully larger unit colorado encountered technical problems general conducted research energy including means published papers subject president richard_nixon appointed assistant director research assistant director acting deputy director 1970s energy crisis raised national profile energy issues served panel produced study called wife died cancer married worked enjoyed locating rare appointment ended director honolulu took particular interest museum work preparing volume manual flowering plants hawaii published expanded programs education outreach secured funding new buildings retired returned home california died june documentaries mars secret history project
Edward Creutz