Stirling Colgate

Stirling Colgate
Stirling Colgate
	Stirling Colgate in 1973
Born	November 14, 1925; New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	December 1, 2013 (aged 88); Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Cornell University; University of California, Berkeley;
Known for	Thermonuclear weapon;
Awards	Bruno Rossi Prize (1990)
	Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear physics
Institutions	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Los Alamos National Laboratory; New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology;

Stirling Auchincloss Colgate (/ˈkoʊlɡeɪt/; November 14, 1925 – December 1, 2013) was an American nuclear physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a professor emeritus of physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from 1965 to 1974, of which he also served its president.

A scion of the Colgate toothpaste family, he was America's premier diagnostics scientist on thermonuclear weapons during the early years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and later in Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). While much of his involvement with physics is still highly classified, he made many contributions in the open literature including physics education and astrophysics, specifically studying plasma physics.

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