34 Facts About Edward Creutz

Edward Creutz was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

Edward Creutz was Vice President of Research at General Atomics from 1955 to 1970.

Edward Creutz published over 65 papers on botany, physics, mathematics, metallurgy and science policy, and held 18 patents relating to nuclear energy.

Edward Creutz led a group that studied the metallurgy of uranium and other elements used in reactor designs.

Edward Creutz served as an assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 1970 to 1977, and then as director of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, where he took particular interest in the museum's preparation of a Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii.

Edward Creutz had two older brothers, John and Jim, and a younger sister, Edith.

Edward Creutz played a number of musical instruments, including the mandolin, ukulele and trombone.

Edward Creutz played in the school bands at Janesville High School and Monroe High School.

Edward Creutz played left guard on the American football teams at Janesville and Monroe.

Edward Creutz expressed an interest in chemistry, biology, geology and photography.

Edward Creutz entered the University of Wisconsin and studied mathematics and physics.

Edward Creutz encountered several members of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, including Julian Mack, Ragnar Rollefson, Raymond Herb, Eugene Wigner and Gregory Breit.

Edward Creutz married Lela Rollefson, a mathematics student at Wisconsin, and the sister of Ragnar Rollefson, on September 13,1937.

Wigner moved to Princeton University in 1938, and soon after Edward Creutz received an offer as well.

Edward Creutz built an ionization chamber and a linear amplifier out of radio vacuum tubes, coffee cans and motorcycle batteries, and with this apparatus the physicists at Princeton were able to confirm the results.

The name was a codename; Edward Creutz was the first to conduct actual metallurgy research, and he hired its first metallurgist to work with him.

Edward Creutz studied the corrosion of metals in a water-cooled system, and designed the cooling system.

Edward Creutz's group looked into the process of corrosion in metals in contact with fast-flowing liquids, the processes for fabricating aluminium and jacketing uranium with it.

In October 1944, Edward Creutz moved to Los Alamos, where he became a group leader responsible for explosive lens design verification and preliminary testing.

Difficulties encountered in testing the lenses led to the construction of a special test area in Pajarito Canyon, and Edward Creutz became responsible for testing there.

Edward Creutz in turn recruited a number of young physicists who had worked with him at Princeton and on the Manhattan Project in Chicago and Los Alamos, including Martyn Foss, Jack Fox, Roger Sutton and Sergio DeBenedetti.

Edward Creutz became a professor, the head of the physics department, and the head of the nuclear research center at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1948.

Edward Creutz was a member of the executive board at the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1958, and a consultant at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1946 to 1958.

Edward Creutz published eight papers on floral species, and named three varieties of violets after his children.

Edward Creutz's family served as hosts for a time to two young people from Tahiti and Samoa.

In 1955 and 1956, Edward Creutz spent a year at Los Alamos evaluating its thermonuclear fusion program for the Atomic Energy Commission.

Edward Creutz moved to La Jolla, California, as its vice president for research and development, and was concurrently the director of its John Jay Hopkins Laboratory for Pure and Applied Science from 1955 to 1967.

Edward Creutz was a member of the Advisory Panel on General Science at the Department of Defense from 1959 to 1963.

Between 1962 and 1974 Edward Creutz published six papers on the subject.

Edward Creutz became assistant director for mathematical and physicals sciences in 1975, and was acting deputy director from 1976 to 1977.

The 1970s energy crisis raised the national profile of energy issues, and Edward Creutz served on a panel that produced a study called The Nation's Energy Future.

Edward Creutz took particular interest in the museum's work preparing a two-volume Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii, which was published in 1999.

Edward Creutz expanded programs for education and outreach, and secured funding for two new buildings.

Edward Creutz retired in 1987 and returned to his home in Rancho Santa Fe, California, and died there on June 27,2009.