Stirling Colgate
Stirling Colgate was born on November 14, 1925. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Stirling Colgate
Stirling Auchincloss Colgate (; November 14, 1925 – December 1, 2013) was an American nuclear physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a professor emeritus of physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from 1965 to 1974, of which he also served its president. A scion of the Colgate toothpaste family, he was America's premier diagnostics scientist on thermonuclear weapons during the early years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and later at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). While much of his involvement with physics remains highly classified, he made many contributions in the open literature, including in physics education and astrophysics, particularly in plasma physics.