Donald Christian Lorents

Background

Lorents, Donald Christian was born on March 26, 1929 in Bagley, Minnesota, United States. Son of Conrad Joseph and Elsie (Anderson) Lorents.

Education

Bachelor, Concordia College, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Nebraska, 1958.

Career

Physicist, Westingthouse Research Laboratory, Pittsburgh, 1958-1959; physicist, Socially Responsible Investment International, Menlo Park, California, 1959-1980; laboratory director molecular physics laboratory, Socially Responsible Investment International, Menlo Park, California, 1980-1990; science director, Socially Responsible Investment International, Menlo Park, California, since 1990. Visiting scientist U. Aarhus (Denmark), 1968-1969, 87, 89. Co-chairman International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions XIV, PaloAlto, California, 1985.

Achievements

• Donald Christian Lorents has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (14th) Held in Palo Alto, California on 24-30 July 1985 (Electronic and Atomic Collisions. Invited Papers)

Membership

Fellow American Physical Society. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Connections

Married Doris May Bry, August 31, 1952. Children: Christine Ann, Nancy Sue.

Father:

Conrad Joseph Lorents

Mother:

Elsie (Anderson) Lorents

Spouse:

Doris May Bry

child:

Christine Ann Lorents

child:

Nancy Sue Lorents