Stirling A.
Colgate
Year
1994
Subject
Physics
Award
Wetherill
Affiliation
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation
For fundamental contributions to understanding of stellar collapse and supernova explosions.
Before Los Alamos National Laboratory existed, there the Los Alamos Ranch School. Stirling Colgate was one of the last graduates to receive a diploma from the Ranch School in 1943, just before the Army took it over. Colgate later became a theoretical physicist at the laboratory, becoming an expert in working with satellites and nuclear physics.
Dr. Colgate is now retired from Los Alamos.
Information as of 1994