David Walter STEINHAUS

  General Notes:

David spent his working career from 1952 to 1979 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM as a physicist. He developed and used new instruments for high-accuracy measurements on the optical spectra of uranium and was one of the first to make extensive use of high-speed digital computers in spectroscopic research. In 1979 David left Los Alamos to become the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Physics at Southwestern at Memphis College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, TN. In 1984 he moved to Albuquerque, NM where he teach computer classes at a senior center and works at the city genealogical library.

  Birth Notes:

Born on Oak Leaf farm near Neillsville, WI.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Hobbies. Had private aircraft license and passed all tests for a commercial license

• Military Service: US Army, 8 Jan 1945 to 22 Aug 1946. Private to T/Sgt # 36931239

• Graduation: Lake Forest College, 1941, Lake Forest, Lake, Illinois, USA. Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Mathematics

• Graduation: John Hopkins University, 1952. PhD in Physics

David married Dorothy Jean CARRYER, daughter of Omer Newton CARRYER and Kathleen Brenner RINEHART, on 1 Jan 1949 in Hancock, Washington, Maryland, USA. (Dorothy Jean CARRYER was born on 14 Nov 1923 in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Location: St. Thomas Episcopal Church.