Background
Okrent, David was born on April 19, 1922 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Son of Abram and Gussie (Pearlman) Okrent.
Okrent, David was born on April 19, 1922 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Son of Abram and Gussie (Pearlman) Okrent.
Master of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1943. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Harvard, 1951.
Mech. engineer, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, 1943-1946; senior physicist, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, 1951-1971; regents lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968; professor engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971-1991; professor emeritus, research professor, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1991. Visiting professor U. Washington, Seattle, 1963, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1970-1971. Isaac Taylor chair Technion, 1977-1978.
Member advisory committee on reactor safeguards Atomic Energy Commission, 1963-1987, also chairman, 1966. Science secretary to secretary general of Geneva Conference, 1958. Member United States delegate to all Geneva Atoms for Peace Conferences.
Fellow Society for Risk Analysis, American Physical Society, American Nuclear Society (Tommy Thompson award 1980, Glenn Seaborg medal 1987, George C. Lawrence Pioneering award 2007), National Academy Engineering.
Married Rita Gilda Holtzman, February 1, 1948 (deceased June 2005). Children: Neil, Nina, Jocelyne.