Background
Lathrop, Kaye Don was born on October 8, 1932 in Bryan, Ohio, United States. Son of Arthur Quay and Helen Venita (Hoos) Lathrop.
Lathrop, Kaye Don was born on October 8, 1932 in Bryan, Ohio, United States. Son of Arthur Quay and Helen Venita (Hoos) Lathrop.
Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, 1955; Master of Science, California Institute Technology, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute Technology, 1962.
Staff member, Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1962-1967;
group leader methods development, General Atomic Company, San Diego, 1967-1968;
assistant division leader theoretical division, Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1973-1975;
associate division leader reactor safeguards and reactor safety and technical division, Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1975-1977;
alternate division leader energy division, Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1977-1978;
division leader computer science and services division, Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1978-1979;
associate director for engineering science, Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1979-1984;
associate lab director, professor applied research Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, 1984-1994;
professor emeritus, Stanford University, since 1994. Visiting professor U. New Mexico, 1964-1965, Adjunct Professor, 1966-1967. Guest lecturer International Atomic Energy Agency, 1969.
Member of advisory committee reactor physics Energy Research and Development Administration, 1973-1977. Member reactor physics visiting committee Argonne National Laboratory, 1978-1983. Member management advising committee y-12divsn.
Union Carbide Corporation, 1979-1982. Member engineering national advising committee U.Mich., 1983-1992. Member steering committee Joint Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Research Program, 1985-1989.
Member external advising committee Nuclear Technology and Engineering division Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1988-1991, 92-93. Member commission on material control and accounting for special nuclear materials National Research Council, 1988-1989. Member energy research advisory board panel on new production reactor technical assessment Department of Energy, 1988.
Member electric power/energy system engineering peer committee National Academy of Engineering, 1992-1994, chair, 1994, member commission on membership, 1994-1997, member presidential nominating committee, 1996-1997, member membership policy committee, since 1997. Chair division review committee technical and safety assessment division Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1994-1997, division review committee applied theoretical and computational physics division, since 1997, member division review committee. Member University of California President's Council on National laboratories, since 1995, member science and technical panel, since 1993, county, since 1995, member of national secretary panel, since 1996.
Served to First lieutenant C.E. United States Army, 1955-1958. Fellow American Nuclear Society (chairman mathematics and computation division 1970-1971, national director 1973-1976, 79-82, treasurer 1977-1979, Outstanding Performance award1980). Member American Physical Society, National Academy Engineering.
Married Judith Marie Green, June 11, 1957. Children: Braxton Landess, Scottfield Michael.
