1. Stirling Auchincloss Colgate 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 served its president.
10 Facts About Stirling Colgate
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Stirling Colgate was born in New York City in 1925, to Henry Auchincloss and Jeanette Thurber Stirling Colgate.
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Stirling Colgate attended Los Alamos Ranch School until 1942 when a military delegation along with input from Robert Oppenheimer and Ernest O Lawrence decided to close the school.
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Stirling Colgate studied the radioactive products of an explosion which were scooped from the atmosphere by specially designed aircraft.
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Stirling Colgate's work required him to shuffle between Albuquerque, Livermore, and Los Alamos.
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In discussions with a friend, Stirling Colgate found that neutrinos can develop degeneracy pressure.
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Stirling Colgate went on to serve as the president of New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico from the beginning of 1965 through the end of 1974.
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From 1975 until his death, Stirling Colgate worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and was a professor emeritus at New Mexico Tech.
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Stirling Colgate continued his research into supernova and received the 2006 Los Alamos medal from LANL.
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Stirling Colgate had a specially-designed laboratory on the New Mexico Tech campus where he continued his research until mid-2013, when he ceased work due to failing health.