Dr. Siegfried Hecker/Courtesy photo
LOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWS RELEASE
Christopher Nolan’s biopic “Oppenheimer” has captured the interest of nearly one hundred million people around the world. Dr. Hecker will share his views on the legacy of Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, based on his more than five-decades associated with the laboratory Oppenheimer led. He will be joined by Senior Historian for the Los Alamos National Laboratories, Alan Carr.
Siegfried Hecker is the former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Professor Emeritus of Stanford University. He is currently Professor of Practice at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 34 years, including serving as its fifth director from 1986 through 1997. He was at Stanford University for 17 years in the School of Engineering.
Dr. Hecker has worked on nuclear matters for most of his career, including visits to all countries with declared nuclear weapons programs. Dr. Hecker is the editor of Doomed to Cooperate (2016), a two volume set documenting the history of the Russian-U.S. laboratory-to-laboratory cooperation, and Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program (2023) written with Elliot Serbin.
Alan B. Carr currently serves as a Program Manager and the Senior Historian for Los Alamos National Laboratory. During his tenure as a laboratory historian, which began in 2003, Carr has produced several publications and lectures pertaining to the Manhattan Project, nuclear testing history, and the historical evolution of LANL. He has lectured for numerous professional organizations and has been featured as a guest on many local, national, and international radio and television programs. Before coming to Los Alamos, Carr completed his graduate studies at Texas Tech University.
Join the Los Alamos Historical Society on Tuesday, February 13, for their monthly Lecture Series. Dr. Siegfried Hecker will speak in the Duane Smith Auditorium from 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
For more information, visit the Los Alamos Historical Society’s website http://www.losalamoshistory.org
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