Background
Lavatelli, Leo Silvio was born on August 15, 1917 in Mackinac Island, Michigan, United States. Son of Silvio E. and Zella (Cunningham) Lavatelli.
Lavatelli, Leo Silvio was born on August 15, 1917 in Mackinac Island, Michigan, United States. Son of Silvio E. and Zella (Cunningham) Lavatelli.
Bachelor of Science, California Institute of Technology, 1939. Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1943. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1949.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1951.
Instructor physics, chemistry, algebra, calculus, symbolic logic, Deep Springs (California) Junior College, 1939-1941;
instructor, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1941;
research assistant, Manhattan District Office Science Research and Development, National Defense Research Council, Princeton, 1942-1943;
junior staff member, Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Laboratory (formerly Manhattan District Site Y), 1943-1946;
research assistant, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1946-1950;
assistant professor physics, staff member Control Systems Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1950-1955;
associate professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1955-1958;
professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1958-1979;
professor emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana, since 1979. Member measuring groups and witness for Trinity, the Alamogordo Atomic Bomb Test, 1945. Member design team orbit plotting/control circuit logic FM new cyclotron project Harvard University, 1946.
Observer air/ground exercises unites states department Defense, Waco, Texas, 1952. Observer joint air exercisesNATO, Federal Republic Germany, 1955. Member project quick-fix Control Sys.
Laboratory, 1953; consultant Illinois group Physical Science Study Committee, 1956-1957, Science Teaching Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966, Teheran Research unit University of Illinois, 1970. Participant information theory in biology conference University of Illinois, 1952.
Co-moderator discussion Federation Atomic Scientists, 1945, 1947. Fellow American Physical Society. Member Harvard Faculty Club (non-resident).
Married Anna Craig Henderson, June 14, 1941 (deceased September 1966). Children: Nancy Jack, Mark Leo. Married Celia Burns, January 23, 1967 (deceased May 1976).
1 stepchild, Faith Stendler (deceased). Married Barbara Gow, November 22, 1976 (divorced January 1979. Deceased March 1995).
Stepchildren: Ann Deemer, Lindsay Deemer. Married Olwen Thomas, March 4, 1982. Stepchildren: Alice Ann Williamson (Mistress Michael W. Cone), Caroline Hill Williamson, Thomas Holman Williamson, Hugh Stuart Williamson.