In 1962, his son, Alfred Loomis Jr., made the hop across the Calibogue Sound and bought the nearly 2,000-acre Bull Island. For the next 40 years, Bull Island was the Loomis family’s winter retreat.

During the time I was an undergraduate at Harvard, James Bryant Conant was president of the university. He was a craggy-looking New Englander, a distinguished chemist, with a delightful smile. He ...

The incredible life of Alfred Loomis, who once co-owned 20,000 acres on Hilton Head, will be be featured Jan. 16 on the PBS “American Experience” show: “The Secret of Tuxedo Park: How a ...

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 ...

Understanding just how America wins wars is a pressing task these days, which makes the story of Alfred Loomis especially timely -- and instructive. A financier and an amateur physicist, Loomis ...

Meet Wall Street tycoon Alfred Lee Loomis, who led a double life as a scientist and whose secret lab in upstate New York developed radar technology that altered the course of World War II.