Conrad Longmire

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1921 – 2010

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Who was Conrad Longmire?

Conrad Lee Longmire was an American theoretical physicist who was best known as the discoverer of the mechanism behind high-altitude electromagnetic pulse.

In 1961, Longmire was awarded the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award "for continued and original theoretical contributions, requiring unusual insight, to the development of nuclear weapons and the progress of plasma physics." In 2004 he was awarded the Los Alamos Medal, the nuclear laboratory's highest award.

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Born
Aug 23, 1921
Loyston, Tennessee
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • University of Rochester
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lived in
  • United States of America
Died
Mar 22, 2010
Santa Barbara

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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