Richard Latter
Richard Latter (20 February 1923 – 2 December 1999) was a theoretical physicist, who was famous for his political involvement in the
Life
Richard Latter was born in
After graduation, he started working for
In 1971, he founded RDA (R&D Associates) with other physicists (his brother among them).
Latter was married twice, and had three sons from his first marriage—one of them, Richard James Latter, died in 1990—and a daughter from his second marriage.
By the end of his life, he lived in McLean, Virginia, where he died in 1999 of lung cancer.
Notable Achievements
In the early 1960s, Latter had the idea of
He was a member of the US delegation to the Conference for the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons Tests on Geneva and a science adviser to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). Latter also helped work with Soviet scientists at the Geneva conference to develop what would later become a treaty against testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere (1964).
Publications
- Latter, Richard (1964-10-15). "Solutions of the Thomas—Fermi—Dirac Statistical Model of Atoms". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 41 (8). AIP Publishing: 2275–2279. ISSN 0021-9606.
- Latter, Richard (1955). "Similarity Solution for a Spherical Shock Wave". Journal of Applied Physics. 26 (8). AIP Publishing: 954–960. ISSN 0021-8979.
- Latter, Richard (1956). "Thomas‐Fermi Model of Compressed Atoms". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 24 (2). AIP Publishing: 280–292. ISSN 0021-9606.
References
- Bernstein, Adam (6 December 1999). "Theoretical Physicist Richard Latter". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
- Brode, Harold L. (2000). "Richard Latter". Physics Today. 53 (4). AIP Publishing: 83–84. ISSN 0031-9228.
- New York Times. Retrieved 2018-02-07.