Government / Military

Herbert York

1952–2009

Physicist and the first director of Lawrence Livermore (1952); later the first Director of Defense Research & Engineering at the Pentagon and a founding figure of U.S. defense-science administration. A key node linking the weapons labs to the Department of Defense R&D apparatus.

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Connections (4)

confirmedDARPA

ARPA's first chief scientist (1958)

Source: Wikipedia: Herbert York; DARPA history

confirmedLawrence Livermore National Laboratory

its first director (1952)

Source: Wikipedia: Herbert York

confirmedEdward Teller

co-founded Lawrence Livermore with him (1952); the two later split over the nuclear test ban

Source: Wikipedia: Herbert York; Lawrence Livermore history

confirmedDwight Eisenhower

his administration's first Director of Defense Research and Engineering (1958)

Source: Wikipedia: Herbert York

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