Bradner, Hugh

Hugh Bradner
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Name	Bradner, Hugh Gender: M
born on	5 November 1915 at 21:00 (= 9:00 PM )
Place	Tonopah, Nevada, 38n04, 117w14
Timezone	PST h8w (is standard time)
Data source	Rectified from approx. time Rodden Rating C Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	12°42' 27°10 Asc. 19°04'

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Hugh Bradner (identification badge photo from Los Alamos)

Biography

American physicist at the University of California credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit, which helped to revolutionize scuba diving. He thus became known as the "father of the wetsuit."

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.

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, he continued to work both on oceanographic research, as well as on the DUMAND deep ocean neutrino astronomy project.

Bradner met his future wife, Marjorie Hall Bradner, who was also working as a secretary on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory. The couple were married in Los Alamos in 1943. Security at the top secret facility was so tight that neither Bradner's nor Hall's parents were allowed to attend the ceremony, though Oppenheimer was among the wedding guests. The couple remained together for over 65 years until she died on 10 April 2008 at the age of 89. Hugh Bradner died at the age of 92 at his home in San Diego, California, on 5 May 2008 from complications of pneumonia.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• associate relationship with von Neumann, John (born 28 December 1903)

• (has as) teacher relationship with Alvarez, Luis Walter (born 13 June 1911)

Events

• Work : Great Achievement 1941 (PhD)

• Relationship : Marriage 1943 (Marjorie Hall)

• Death of Mate 10 April 2008 (Marjorie Hall)
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• Death by Disease 5 May 2008 (Pneumonia, age 92)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes birth notice, Reno Gazette-Journal (Reno, Nevada), Monday 8 Nov 1915, page 5, "D. B. Bradner, chief chemist of the Tonopah Extension, is the proud father of a fine boy, who arrived Friday night." A birth time of 9 PM is speculative.

Categories

• Traits : Mind : Education extensive (PhD)

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Pneumonia (Terminal)

• Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs (65 years with Marjorie Hall)

• Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Pneumonia)

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 92)

• Vocation : Business : Entrepreneur

• Vocation : Education : Researcher

• Vocation : Education : Teacher

• Vocation : Science : Astronomy

• Vocation : Science : Physics

• Notable : Famous : First in Field ("Father of the wetsuit")