Background
Bradner, Hugh was born on November 5, 1915 in Tonopah, Nevada, United States. Son of Donald Byal and Agnes Claire (Mead) Bradner.
Bradner, Hugh was born on November 5, 1915 in Tonopah, Nevada, United States. Son of Donald Byal and Agnes Claire (Mead) Bradner.
AB, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1936. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, 1941. Doctor of Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1961.
Graduate assistant, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, 1938-1941; staff, United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Washington, 1941-1943; staff, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1943-1946; research staff, Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1961; research physicist, Institute Geophysics, University of California, La Jolla, since 1961; professor engineering physics and geophysics, University of California, La Jolla, since 1964; professor emeritus, University of California, La Jolla, since 1979. Member various advisory bd.s United States Navy, Atomic Energy Commission, various universities, civic organizations. Consultant in field.
Fellow American Physical Society, California Academy of Sciences. Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Geophysical Union, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Marjorie Hall, September 26, 1943. 1 child, Barbara Claire.