Brueckner, Keith A.
Oral history interview with Keith Allan Brueckner, 1986 July 2.
Family background; education (Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1950); academic affiliations. Experience at University of California at San Diego, and consultantship to the weapons laboratory at Los Alamos with Kenneth Watson leading to Project 137 (John Wheeler) which later became JASON; Brueckner's reasons for leaving JASON in 1966. Organization, collaboration and policy of JASON; significance and selection of projects; technical advice; preponderance of theoretical physicists in JASON; uniqueness and impact of JASON; other consultantships and advisory involvements.
Theoretical nuclear physicist, consultant for industry and government, and founding member and first chairman of University of California, San Diego's Physics Department.
Brueckner, Keith A.
Watson, Kenneth M.
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
JASON Defense Advisory Group
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
University of California, Berkeley.
University of California, San Diego.
Science and state.
Science consultants.
Weapons industry.
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