David Allan Bromley

David Allan Bromley , often cited as D. Allan Bromley, (born May 4, 1926 in Westmeath , Ontario , Canada ; † February 10, 2005 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was a Canadian-American nuclear physicist , known as the pioneer of heavy ion physics . He was also an influential science organizer in the United States.

Bromley studied physics at Queen's University in Kingston (Bachelor in 1948 with top marks, Master's degree in 1950) and at the University of Rochester , where he received his doctorate in nuclear physics in 1952. Then he was there instructor and from 1953 assistant professor. In 1955 he went to work as a scientist at the Canadian state nuclear technology company Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. in Chalk River. In 1958 he became head of department there. In 1960 he went back to the United States and in 1961 became professor at Yale University and deputy head of the heavy ion accelerator laboratory. In the same year he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1963 he founded the AW Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale University, which he led until 1989. 1970 to 1977 he was head of the physics faculty at Yale. At Yale he was Henry Ford II Professor of Physics from 1972 and the first Sterling Professor of the Sciences from 2001 . After serving as an advisor to the US President from 1989 to 1993, he became dean of the Yale Engineering Faculty in 1994, which he remained until 2000. He continued lecturing at Yale until his death from a heart attack.

He was a US citizen from 1970. He was a consultant in the Nixon administration and on both the scientific advisory board of US President Ronald Reagan and from 1989 to 1993 scientific adviser (Assistant to the President for Science and Technology) of George HW Bush and first director of the Office of Science and Technology Technology Policy. During this time, he ensured a strengthening of the promotion of science in the USA and the expansion of the internet.

Bromley has published over 500 scientific articles, particularly on heavy ion reactions and nuclear structure.

Bromley has received several honorary doctorates (including the University of Frankfurt). In 1988 he received the National Medal of Science . In 2001 he received the Nicholson Medal of the American Physical Society, of which he was president in 1997. In 1982 he was President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1972 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1990 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

literature

• P. Fleury, Francesco Iachello (Editor) D. Allan Bromley. Nuclear Scientist and Policy Innovator , World Scientific 2006

Fonts

• Editor Treative on heavy ion science , Plenum Press, 8 volumes from 1984
• A century of physics , Springer 2002
• The president's scientists: reminiscences of a White House science advisor , Yale University Press 1994
• Editor with Vernon Hughes Facets of physics , Academic Press 1970

Web links

• Alejandra Diaz: Physics Professor David Allan Bromley. In: Yale Scientific Magazine. Archived from the original on July 10, 2010 . 
• Walter Greiner, Neal Lane: Biography. (pdf) In: Biogr. Memoirs Nat. Acad. Sci. 2009 .