T.S. Perry

Theodore S. Perry was born in Salt Lake City, UT, on April 8, 1952. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Utah State University. At Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, he received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics studying heat transport in liquid helium and platinum at temperatures between 1 and 20 mK. In 1981, he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working in the nuclear weapons program. He did experiments on twelve underground nuclear weapon tests and was the project leader for developing high-resolution X-ray spectrometers for use in underground tests. in 1991, concurrent with the end of nuclear testing, he was named Nuclear Weapon Physics Program leader. in this capacity, he pioneered the use of high-powered lasers to investigate the physics of nuclear weapons. in 1998, he was named Associate Program Leader with responsibility for developing advanced diagnostics, calibration facilities, and experiments for the National Ignition Facility. He currently is also the Focused Experiments Group Leader in the Weapons and Complex Integration Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). in 2003, he was named LLNL's Chief Scientist for Nuclear Test Readiness. Dr. Perry is a lifetime member of the American Physical Society and is a member of the honor societies Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Pi Sigma.