16 Facts About Darol Froman

Darol Kenneth Froman was an American physicist who served as the deputy director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1951 to 1962.

Darol Froman served as a group leader from 1943 to 1945, and a division head from 1945 to 1948.

Darol Froman was the scientific director of the Operation Sandstone nuclear tests at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific in 1948, and assistant director for weapons development from 1949 to 1951.

Darol Kenneth Froman was born in Harrington, Washington, on October 23,1906, the son of a farmer.

Darol Froman was a summer student at the University of Chicago in 1926 and 1927 before enrolling as a graduate student in 1928.

Darol Froman joined the Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory in 1942.

Later that year Darol Froman joined the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, where he witnessed the start up of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, in December 1942.

Darol Froman was one of the earliest arrivals at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where he was head of the P-4 Group in Robert Bacher's P Division.

Darol Froman remained at Los Alamos after the war, replacing Bacher as head of G Division in 1945.

Darol Froman was assistant director for weapons development from 1949 to 1951.

Darol Froman served as the associate technical director, later renamed deputy director, from 1951 until he retired in 1962.

Darol Froman was heavily involved with Project Rover, the project to develop a nuclear thermal rocket.

Darol Froman became a consultant professor for the University of New Mexico in 1947.

Darol Froman was chairman of the board for First National Bank of Rio Arriba, scientific director of Douglas Aircraft, director of development for Espanola Hospital, and a member of the Science Advisory Committee on Ballistic Missiles for the Secretary of Defense.

Darol Froman was a fellow of the American Physical Society and American Nuclear Society and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Association of Los Alamos Scientists.

Darol Froman died in Phoenix, Arizona, on September 11,1997.