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Bedard, Alfred Joseph was born on November 28, 1935 in Brooklyn. Son of Alfred Joseph Senior and Agnes Dorothy (Delaney) Bedard.
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Alfred Joseph Bedard
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Alfred Joseph Bedard, American Physicist, researcher, educator. Achievements include patents (with others) in wind speed measuring device, in static pressure probe, in temperature stabilizing techniques; discovery of new method of measuring infrasound in the atmosphere, forms of wind shear hazard affecting aircraft; design of totable tornado observatory.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Boston College, 1957; Master of Science in Aerospace and Engineering Sciences, U. Colorado, 1976; Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace and Engineering Sciences, U. Colorado, 1982.
Career
Physicist sound section, National Bureau Standards, Washington, 1960-1966; physicist, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado, since 1966. Team member commission on natural disasters National Research Council, since 1982.
Achievements
Membership
Member Elks, Boulder. Board directors Regis High School, Denver, 1989, Colorado State Science Fair, since 1993. First lieutenant South Carolina., United States Army, 1958-1960.
Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (senior), American Institute Physics (speakers bureau since 1980), Acoustical Society American, Wind Engineering Research Council, Colorado Society for Natural Hazards Research, American Meteorological Society.
Connections
Married Vera C. Regan. Children: Larry, Lee, Patrick, Lisa.
