I met tycoon and amateur scientist Alfred Lee Loomis in 1954 as a postdoctoral researcher working with his son Farnie. After a cordial introduction, Alfred peered over my shoulder, watching me plot ...

Alfred Loomis took a keen interest in Fermi’s research, offering to fund investigations into how fission could be used for atomic energy. During World War II, Fermi worked on the Manhattan ...

When Alfred Loomis gathered America’s brightest scientific minds at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, the result was advances in radar technology that many say won World War II. Then came the atomic ...