John S. Foster Junior
John Stuart Foster junior (born September 18, 1922 in New Haven (Connecticut) ) is a Canadian-American physicist.
Foster is the son of the Canadian physicist John S. Foster senior and studied at McGill University , at which his father was also a professor. In 1948 he received his bachelor's degree. During the Second World War he was from 1942 at Harvard University in radar research, was 1943/44 radar advisor to the 15th Air Force in the Mediterranean and 1946/47 on the Canadian nuclear reactor project in Chalk River. In 1952 he received his PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley . He then went to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , where he became Head of the Experimental Physics department, was Associate Director in 1958, and Director from 1961 to 1965 (and associated with it, Associate Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ). At that time he was heavily involved in building the US nuclear arsenal.
From 1965 to 1973 he held a high position in the US Department of Defense under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon Director, Defense Research and Engineering. From 1973 to 1988 he was Vice President for Science and Technology at TRW Inc. and then on the Board of Directors until 1994. He was a consultant to Northrop Grumman and other technology firms. 1973 to 1990 he was on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board of the US President and he was long on the Defense Science Board and from 1990 to 1993 its chairman.
Under the presidency of George W. Bush , he advocated a resumption of nuclear weapons tests and a renewal of the US nuclear arsenal.
In 1992 he received the Enrico Fermi Prize and in 1960 the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize . He is an honorary doctor of the University of Missouri . He received the Federal Cross of Merit (1974) and is commander of the Legion of Honor . In 1969 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering and received its Founders Award in 1989. He has received the Department of Defense's Distinguished Public Service Medal three times.
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| SURNAME | Foster, John S. Junior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foster, John Stuart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Haven (Connecticut) |