Dartmouth at Los Alamos

Dartmouth is being well represented in the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, an extension project of the University of California, in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Five alumni are at present attached to the laboratory staff, with another graduate having left only recently.

Edward F. Hammel '39, who received the Ph.D. degree in 1942, has been in the Los Alamos Laboratory since 1945, and at present is in charge of the low- temperature group. From 1942 to 1944 he was a research associate at Princeton University, where, as a member of a group of scientists working on a two- year atomic energy program, he received an award for outstanding achievement from the Government. Ralph K. Spotts '22, who has been a staff member at the Laboratory since 1948, is a research engineer, now in the Weapons Division.

Three members of the Class of '42 are, or have been, affiliated with the Laboratory. David F. Seacord, who did graduate work at Harvard and MIT and was also a teaching fellow in Physics at Dartmouth for the year 1947-48, is a staff member in the Test Division, which is responsible for nuclear measurements in actual tests. Theodore A. Dunn is training supervisor; while Edward W. Doty, Dunn's college roommate, has recently left his position as the Laboratory's employment director to work with Sylvania on Long Island. While in New Mexico Doty was a member of the Los Alamos Town Council.

Joseph F. Stampfer Jr. '52 is the most recent addition. A June graduate, he is employed in the Chemistry-Metallurgy Division.