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Passing of Dr. Bridgman, Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering
Posted Monday, November 30, 2015

 

 

Dr. Charles J. Bridgman, Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering within AFIT's Graduate School of Engineering and Management's Department of Engineering Physics passed away on November 15, 2015.

Dr. Bridgman's research interests centered around nuclear weapon effects,  nuclear weapon fallout modeling  and military nuclear power applications. He was associated with nuclear weapon defense since 1952.  He was a member of the first military team to be operational on the H-bomb. He authored numerous technical articles in a wide variety of journals. In his 53 years on the AFIT faculty, he chaired over 120 MS theses and PhD dissertations.  He received several awards including Tau Beta Pi Teacher of the Year and the Gage H. Crocker Outstanding Professor Award.  Dr. Bridgman was a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society.

His obituary is located here.

   

 

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