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	Alfred Lee Loomis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Lee Loomis (November 4, 1887-August 11, 1975) was an American lawyer, investment banker, physicist, philanthropist, and patron of scientific research.
		In 1939, Loomis began a collaboration with Ernest Lawrence, and was instrumental in financing Lawrence's project to construct a 184- inch cyclotron.
		Loomis also made a significant contribution to the development of ground-controlled approach technology, a precursor of today's instrument-landing systems, which used radar to permit ground controllers to "talk-down" airplane pilots when poor visibility made visual landings difficult or impossible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Lee_Loomis (644 words)

	ASEE PRISM - Mar 2003 - Palace of Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loomis, a world-class tinkerer in his own right, was a visionary who saw that technology would win the looming war—and indeed that an investment in "big science" would be the key to national strength in the future.
		Loomis was intrigued immediately by one device, a so-called "resonant cavity magnetron," which had the potential to revolutionize radar.
		Loomis, more than Lawrence, was becoming aware that atomic physics was more than pure science, that it might indeed contribute to the development of weapons of unprecedented power that would be needed to stop the Nazi menace.
	www.prism-magazine.org /mar03/science.cfm (1502 words)

	Issues in Science and Technology: Science and security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loomis saw that the financial crunch of the 1930s was taking its toll on the universities and corporations accustomed to buying and maintaining their own research infrastructure.
		Loomis converted it into a research lab and dormitory, which became a temporary home for scientists who worked on experiments in brain waves and hypnosis (using the Loomis-invented electroencephalograph), high-energy physics (for which he tried to build a particle accelerator), architectural engineering, and radar.
		Loomis and his colleagues showed what could be done with it against the German bombers in the initial Battle of Britain and later against the V-1 buzz bombs (85 percent of which were detected, and half of which were destroyed).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3622/is_200210/ai_n9099634 (1394 words)

	Inside the Cloistered Fiefdom of an Unrelenting Gentleman Scientist
		Loomis was ideally suited to such work because of its technical aspects, and because he had become acquainted at Aberdeen with leading figures from the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, which then represented the state of the art in electric power generation and distribution.
		Loomis co-authored 29 scientific papers between 1927 and 1939, all with established scientists; the papers were published in leading journals.
		His grandchildren Barton Loomis and Jackie Loomis Quillen---both of whom were born during the 1940s and cooperated with Conant in the preparation of her book---remember him as a kindly companion and unrelenting gentleman scientist.
	www.siam.org /siamnews/12-02/scientist.htm (1906 words)

	WNYC - Reading Room: Tuxedo Park
		Loomis of Tuxedo Park," diplomatically noting that Richards' work at the laboratory had afforded him "one of the keenest scientific pleasures of his career." However, it is typical that he could not resist dropping one hint.
		Loomis was a bit stiff, with the bearing of a four-star general in civilian clothes, but he was strong and decisive.
		Because he had Stimson's confidence, Loomis was uniquely positioned to play a pivotal role as the country prepared for a war the Germans had already demonstrated would be, in Bush's words, "a highly technical struggle." Of course, Loomis did not need anyone's permission to undertake his own investigation of the new machinery of war.
	www.wnyc.org /books/860 (4529 words)

	Booknotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And by the time Loomis came out of World War I, Thorne was already known in sort of the "Wall Street Journal" and the newspapers as a real up-and-comer, a sharp-eyed deal-maker, and he was considered to be one of the most promising young security salesmen on Wall Street.
		Loomis' children were out of college and, in fact, they had all just returned from the war, all three of them.
		Loomis privately financed some early research in radar, and then Roosevelt gave them a very large grant, and they started this private laboratory at MIT to actually build most of the radar systems that were put on virtually every airplane and submarine during the war.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1679 (8742 words)

	Alfred Lee Loomis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alfred Lee Loomis (November 4, 1887-August 11, 1975) was an American lawyer, (A banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities) investment banker, (A scientist trained in physics) physicist, philanthropist, and patron of scientific research.
		He established the Loomis Laboratory in (Click link for more info and facts about Tuxedo Park, New York) Tuxedo Park, New York, and his discoveries in practical physics were considered instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II.
		In 1939, Loomis began a collaboration with (Click link for more info and facts about Ernest Lawrence) Ernest Lawrence, and was instrumental in financing Lawrence's project to construct a 184- inch (An accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles) cyclotron.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alfred_lee_loomis.htm (768 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.51 (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alfred's clecision to become a lawyer was certainly in- fluenced by his cousin, Henry Stimson, in whose firm of Winthrop and Stimson he was assured a law clerkship.
		Loomis was enthusiastic, and we made a trip to the research laboratory of General Electric to discuss it with Whitney and Hull.
		ALFRED LEE LOOMIS 331 can be traced to the Shortt clocks, which tract a master penclu- lum swinging in a vacuum chamber, and a heavy-duty pen- clulum "slavecI" to it, oscillating in the air.
	books.nap.edu /books/0309028884/html/308.html (5679 words)

	Lowcountry NOW: Local News - Landowner changed course of history 05/03/02
		Loomis invented and patented the Aberdeen chronograph, an instrument for measuring the speed of shells, that was used to determine how long it would take to hit a target.
		After the war Loomis led a quiet life in Tuxedo Park, serving on the board of the RAND Corp., a nonprofit group for scientific, educational and charitable purposes for the public welfare and security of the United States.
		Loomis and Thorne sold Honey Horn for $11.2 million in 1950 and Loomis died in 1975.
	www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/050302/LOCtuxedo.shtml (1143 words)

	AIP International Catalog of Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alfred Lee Loomis, 1887-1975, A.B. in physics, 1909, Yale University; LL.B. 1912, Harvard Law School, was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation from 1931 until his death in 1975.
		He established Loomis Laboratories in 1926 in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., to conduct independently financed research on a wide range of scientific topics.
		As chairman of the Microwave Committee of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), he was influential in establishing the Radiation Laboratory at MIT in 1940.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/236.html (189 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation: Tuxedo Park -- July 22, 2002
		Beginning in the 1920s, Loomis attracted many of the world's greatest scientists to a mansion he purchased in the aristocratic enclave of Tuxedo Park, New York, and converted into a world-class laboratory.
		Alfred Loomis' father had died when he was very young, and Henry Stimson really raised him.
		And Loomis got on the phone to Roosevelt and said, "let me build it, and let me build it now, because it will make all the difference." Remember, this is before Pearl Harbor, before we're in the war.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/conversation/july-dec02/conant_7-22.html (1608 words)

	Powell's Books - Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of Wold War ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Powerful, handsome, and enormously wealthy, Loomis had for years led a double life, spending his days brokering huge deals and his weekends working with the world's leading scientists in his deluxe private laboratory that was hidden in a massive stone castle.
		As Jennet Conant's heart-thumping book recounts, Loomis was a public-spirited citizen with the brilliance and ability to galvanize the scientific community to invent first the potent weapon that came to be called radar to spare London from bombs and to destroy U-boats, and later contributed to the making of the atom bomb.
		She was given unrestricted access to Loomis' and Conant's papers, as well as to previously unpublished letters and documents, and she interviewed Loomis' many family members, friends, and colleagues.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=16-0684872870-3 (872 words)

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		Alfred Loomis was included in the briefings not only because of his unique position in the scientific establishment, but because his laboratory had built one of the two microwave radar sets then existing in the United States.
		Alfred was chairman of the Committee which took the responsibility for establishing the MIT Radiation Laboratory, one of the worId's most successful scientific and engineering undertakings.
		Alfred was in effect Stimson's minister without portfolio to the scientific leadership of the Manhattan District- his old friends Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Compton, Enrico Fermi, and Robert Oppenheimer.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309028884&chap=308-341 (1412 words)

	ASEE Prism: Palace of science
		Loomis, a world-class tinkerer in his own right, was a visionary who saw that technology would win the looming war-and indeed that an investment in "big science" would be the key to national strength in the future.
		That Loomis is all but unknown today is remarkable and unfortunate given his talents and contribution to history, and Conant's readable and thorough account should go a long way in correcting that.
		It was inevitable that Loomis would eventually make the acquaintance of Ernest Lawrence, who by the time they met had already invented the cyclotron and was looking to build a massive (and very expensive) atom smasher at the University of California-Berkeley.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3797/is_200303/ai_n9217153 (1439 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Tuxedo Park [Large Print] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alfred Lee Loomis (1887-1975) made his fortune in the 1920s by investing in public utilities, but science was his first love.
		Loomis, who undoubtedly was a brilliant left-brained rational thinker, was educated as a lawyer, rose through the ranks of a law firm, then quit to become one of the wealthiest bankers on Wall Street.
		Jennet Conant chronicles Loomis' rise to financial stardom during the twenties by selling the debt of rapidly expanding public utilities; his premonition of the crash in time to liquidate and protect his holdings and his purchase of Hilton Head Island.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0786248149 (1473 words)

	Parameters: Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		President Truman awarded Loomis the Presidential Medal of Merit, the highest civilian award, for his contribution as "one of the leading scientific generals of the war." The King of Great Britain awarded him the British Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom.
		Loomis was a lawyer, businessman, investment banker, physicist, inventor, and philanthropist.
		In November 1940, Loomis shut down his lab in Tuxedo Park and moved his operation to MIT in Cambridge, Mass., where on 11 November 1940 the MIT Radiation Laboratory--the "Rad Lab"--opened to establish the feasibility of microwave radar.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IBR/is_4_33/ai_111852960 (1030 words)

	Borders - Feature - Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World ...
		George Kistiakowsky, a Harvard chemistry professor and one of Richards' closest friends and professional colleagues, guessed the truth immediately, "that it was a take-off on the Loomis Laboratory and the characters frequenting it." Despite its contrived plot, the book was essentially a roman à clef.
		The opening paragraphs of the book perfectly captured Loomis' rarefied world, where scientists mingled with polite society and where intellectual problems in astronomy, biology, psychiatry, or physics could be discussed and pursued in a genteel and collegial atmosphere:
		To that end, Loomis had purchased an enormous stone mansion in Tuxedo, known as the Tower House, and turned it into a private laboratory where he could give free rein to his avocation—primarily physics, but also chemistry, astronomy, and other ventures.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=tuxedopark (2914 words)

	Amazon.com: Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loomis was not in physics, science, in the work he did for the military on microwave, radar, etc. for the money or for fame.
		Loomis was not a perfect man. Few are; but circumstances often contrived to put these men into situations from which they found it difficult to extricate themselves.
		Loomis' wife, Ellen, may have been just fine if her husband had been the type to stay home and cater to her need for attention; but had Loomis had done that, we may well have lost the war.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684872870?v=glance (3355 words)

	Radar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loomis made a fortune on Wall Street and used his wealth to play host at his estate to famous physicists and to finance a private electronics laboratory; he had already built a working low-power CW radar for aircraft detection when the British brought the magnetron to the U.S. in 1940.
		By 1942, the first Loran system, operating at 1.95 MHz, was operating along the East Coast and was used to direct surface vehicles the location of aircraft attacking submarines.
		Loomis is also credited for conceiving the conical scan system for automatic radar tracking of targets.
	www.ee.umd.edu /~taylor/Electrons6.htm (951 words)

	Review of Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palce of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by ...
		The book was "a thinly veiled account of the legendary scientific laboratory owned by the millionaire Alfred Lee Loomis and the eccentric coterie of geniuses whose work he financed," writes Ms.
		To pierce the veil that had so effectively hidden Alfred Loomis from the world -- the financier refused to give interviews and destroyed all his papers before his death -- she probed those important events, taking advantage of both her keen journalistic vision and her family connections.
		Like the character of Alfred Lee Loomis himself, whose private lab led to both radar and the atomic bomb, this is a fabric woven of many strands -- financial genius, brilliant inventiveness, a passion for science, human traits and appetites -- each essential to the emergent pattern.
	www.fredbortz.com /review/TuxedoPark.htm (507 words)

	Loomis Families of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loomis Families of America is now sponsoring a surname DNA project through Family Tree DNA.
		Book Review: I have just finished reading a great book about Alfred Lee Loomis and would recommend it to anyone interested in a family member who was behind a lot of scientific research and development that helped win the war.
		The Loomis Families of America is an organization dedicated to the recording of the Loomis family history and provides help to those who are seeking their Loomis ancestry.
	www.loomis.8k.com (1318 words)

	LORAN - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		LORAN systems were up and running during World War II and were used extensively by the US Navy and Royal Navy.
		It was originally known as "LRN" for Loomis radio navigation, after millionaire and physicist Alfred Lee Loomis, who invented LORAN and played a crucial role in military research and development during WWII.
		The difference between the time of receipt of synchronized signals from radio stations A and B is constant along each hyperbolic curve.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loran (1317 words)

	LRB \| Steven Shapin : Talking with Alfred (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loomis was extremely close to his older cousin Henry Stimson, who, after establishing himself as a corporate lawyer to the East Coast establishment during the 1920s and 1930s, served in the cabinets of five US presidents, and was secretary of war under Taft, Roosevelt and Truman.
		During World War Two, Loomis was described as Stimson's unofficial 'minister without portfolio', connecting him efficiently with the worlds of business and finance.
		His marriage in 1912 to Ellen Farnsworth, 'the prettiest girl in Boston', brought him additional Brahmin connections, and their doings in high society were conscientiously chronicled in the quality New York papers.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v26/n08/print/shap01_.html (361 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2002021001
		George Kistiakowsky, a Harvard chemistry professor and one of Richards' closest friends and professional colleagues, guessed the truth immediately, "that it was a take-off on the Loomis Laboratory and the characters frequenting it." Despite its contrived plot, the book was essentially a roman à clef.
		To that end, Loomis had purchased an enormous stone mansion in Tuxedo, known as the Tower House, and turned it into a private laboratory where he could give free rein to his avocation -- primarily physics, but also chemistry, astronomy, and other ventures.
		His roman à clef provides a rare glimpse inside Loomis' empyrean of pure science just before they would all be cast out into a corrupt and violent world.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon031/2002021001.html (4876 words)

	BW Online \| August 5, 2002 \| A Radar Pioneer Who Stayed off the Screen
		Loomis' fascinating life is the subject of Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II, by former Newsweek and Vanity Fair writer Jennet Conant.
		The same house served as the rendezvous for Loomis' trysts with the young wife of his chief lab assistant.
		Loomis, who had done microwave research at Tuxedo Park and had become head of advanced radar work for the U.S. National Defense Research Committee, was in the first group to see the new magnetron.
	aol.businessweek.com /magazine/content/02_31/b3794052.htm (1042 words)

	'Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon And The Secret Palace Of Science That Changed The Course Of World War II' by Jennet ...
		The book was “a thinly veiled account of the legendary scientific laboratory owned by the millionaire Alfred Lee Loomis and the eccentric coterie of geniuses whose work he financed,” writes Conant in “Tuxedo Park,” named for the exclusive suburban New York enclave where Loomis lived and built his laboratory.
		Like the character of Loomis himself, this is a fabric woven of many strands -- financial genius, brilliant inventiveness, a passion for science, human traits and appetites -- each essential to the emergent pattern.
		Loomis must have wondered whether anyone would figure out the complexity of his life.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20020605review1001.asp (435 words)

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