Alfred Loomis may have been a Wall Street tycoon, but his real passion was scientific discovery. Today he is remembered for the advances he made in radar technology and how those advances ...

Miss Adeline E. Loomis, daughter of Dr. Alfred L. Loomis, and John Dyneley Prince were married in the Church of the Holy Communion by the rector, tha Rev. Dr. Mottet, yesterday at noon.

5. Alfred Loomis Physicist and financier Alfred Loomis used his enormous wealth to build the Loomis Laboratory on his estate in Tuxedo Park, New York.

Loomis’ background in weapons research informed the work on the weapon, and for the next decade popular science publications predicted a death ray that burst the insides of cells.

Alfred Loomis attached electrodes to Henry’s head and waited for Henry, who could fall asleep easily, to enter the deepest stage of sleep.

Wall Street titan turned scientist Alfred Loomis built a lab in a Tuxedo Park mansion to develop radar technology ...

Explore the life of the unknown Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis, who led a double life as a scientist and whose secret lab in upstate New York helped develop the radar technology that would ...

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Alfred Lee Loomis is not a well-known scientific personality, which is exactly how he wanted it, according to Jennet Conant in her fascinating book, "Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the ...

By 1929, Loomis was convinced the levels in the stock market were unsustainable so he sold everything and entered the Depression as one of the wealthiest men in the United States.