Background
Creutz, Edward Chester was born on January 23, 1913 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Lester Raymond and Grace (Smith) Creutz.
Creutz, Edward Chester was born on January 23, 1913 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Lester Raymond and Grace (Smith) Creutz.
Bachelor of Science, University Wisconsin, 1936. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1939.
Research associate, Princeton University, 1939-1940;
instructor physics, Princeton University, 1940-1941;
physicist, National Defense Research Committee, 1941-1942;
physicist, Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago, 1942-1944;
physicist, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, 1944-1946;
associate professor, Carnegie Institute Technology, Pittsburgh, 1946-1949;
professor, head department physics, director Nuclear Research Center, Carnegie Institute Technology, Pittsburgh, 1948-1955;
director, John Jay Hopkins Laboratory for Pure and Applied Science, 1955-1959;
director research, General Atomic Division General dynamics corporation, San Diego, 1955-1959;
vice president research and development, General Atomic division General dynamics corporation, San Diego, 1959-1967;
vice president research and devel, Gulf General Atomic, San Diego, 1967-1970;
assistant director, National Science Foundation, Washington, 1970-1977;
acting deputy director, National Science Foundation, Washington, 1976-1977;
director, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1977-1984;
consultant, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, since 1984. Member sea water conversion committee Water resources Center, University of California-Berkeley, 1958-1968. Advising committee office Science Pers.
National Research Council, 1960-1963. Member executive county Argonne National Laboratory (1946-1951). Consultant National Science Foundation, 1950-1968.
Scientist-at-large Project Sherwood division research Atomic Energy Commission, 1955-1956. Member committee senior reviewers Department Energy, 1972-1979, fusion power coordinating committee, 1971-1979. Consultant Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1946-1958.
Advisory panel general science Department Defense, 1959-1963. Research advising committee electrophysics National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1964-1971, technical advising committee, 1971-1977. Adjunct Professor physics and astronomy U. Hawaii, 1977-1987.
Adjunct Professor physics University of California, San Diego, since 1987.
Board directors San Diego Hall Science and Planetarium, vice president, 1956-1970. Vice president San Diego Industry-Education Council, 1956-1965. Member advisory council Department Education San Diego County.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society (National Research Council representative 1956-1957), American Nuclear Society. Member National Academy of Sciences, American Association Physics Teachers, Physical Society Pittsburgh (president 1949), American Institute Physics (director-at-large board governors 1965-1968).
Married Lela Rollefson, September 13, 1937 (deceased February 1972). Children: Michael John, Carl Eugene, Ann Jo Carmel Creutz Cosgrove. Married Elisabeth B. Cordle, October 5, 1974.