Background
Forrester, Alvin Theodore was born on April 13, 1918 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph D. and Rose (Kissen) Forrester.
Forrester, Alvin Theodore was born on April 13, 1918 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph D. and Rose (Kissen) Forrester.
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1938; A.M., Cornell Univercity, 1939; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1942.
Research associate, University of California at Berkeley, 1942-1945;
physicist, Radio Corporation of America laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey, 1945-1946;
assistant professor physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1946-1951;
associate professor, University of Southern California, 1951-1954;
visiting associate professor physics, U. Pittsburgh, 1954-1955;
physicist, Westinghouse Research laboratories, Pittsburgh, 1955-1958;
nuclear special, Atomics International, Los Angeles, 1958-1959;
department manager, Electro-Optical Systems, Pasadena, California, 1959-1965;
professor, University of California- (Irvine), 1965-1967;
professor, University of California- (Los Angeles), 1967-1987. Visiting professor astronomy U. Utrecht, Netherlands, 1971. Associate Culham Laboratory, England, spring 1974.
Visiting professor physics Technion, Haifa, Israel, fall1977.
Fellow American Physical Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Research award 1962, chairman electrostatic propulsion panel 1960-1961), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of University Professors, American Association Physics Teachers, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Joy Levin, 1948 (deceased 1956). Children— Bruce H., Cheri J. Married June Doris Berg, October 5, 1956 (divorced 1972).
Children— William C., Susan J.