Alfred Lee Loomis
Scientist, Deceased Person
1887 – 1975
Who was Alfred Lee Loomis?
Alfred Lee Loomis was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist/physicist, pioneer in military radar usages, inventor of the LORAN or Long Range Navigation System, and a lifelong patron of scientific research. He established the Loomis Laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, and his role in the development of radar is considered instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II. He invented the Aberdeen Chronograph for measuring muzzle velocities; proposed the LORAN navigational system; contributed significantly to the development of a ground-controlled approach technology for aircraft; and participated in preliminary meetings of the Manhattan Project. Loomis also made contributions to biological instrumentation; working with Edmund Newton Harvey, he co-invented the microscope centrifuge, and pioneered techniques for electroencephalography. In 1937, he discovered the sleep K-complex brainwave.
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