DOUGLAS ADVANCED RESEARCH LABORATORY D.A.R.L.
Donald Wills Douglas Jr. – Head of the Douglas Aircraft Corporation
He was highly educated and brought new ideas to an old guard industry. Overall, he was an inspiration and rejuvenated his father’s company. He was a highly motivated individual who worked to protect the environment and explore outer space using new innovative research and development. He was particularly good to his employees, and very supportive of their needs.
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“This assembly of research equipment was used to identify green house gasses which cause the depletion of the ozone protective layer protecting us from the sun’s radiation! It used to make carbon in the air.”
“This is an instrument which produces Ozone.”
Willard Frank Libby – Professor of Chemistry at UCLA and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1960. He received the award because he had developed the process of carbon-14 dating. Subsequently, he became a member of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, and he worked with Edward Teller on the crash program to develop the hydrogen bomb. He joined the Board of Directors of the Douglas Aircraft Company and was overseeing the technological development of the corporation. He was responsible for the creation and staffing of the Douglas Advanced Research Laboratory (D.A.R.L.) and overseeing the development of different research programs. Dr. Stamires was indirectly reporting to him during the research programs.
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Richard Feynman – Professor of Theoretical Quantum Physics at California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), Nobel Prize recipient and a genius advisor-at-large to research programs carried out at D.A.R.L.
James Mercereau – Professor and Director of the Cryogenics Lab at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
His main contributions have been monumental in “superconductivity”, and low temperature in electronic devices. He was a consultant to D.A.R.L and worked very close with Dr. Stamires setting up the ESR and ENDOR spectrometers with the capability to operate at very low temperatures using liquid helium dewars achieving -270.98 °C under vacuum conditions! The ESR spectra obtained using single laser crystals grown at Bell Laborataory in New Jersey, were very useful in demonstrating the interactions of the magnetic ions with atoms in the crystal lattice.
Frank Sherwood Rowland – Professor of Chemistry University of Southern California Irvine
Professor Rowland was a PhD scientist in physical chemistry at University California Irvine (UCI), who had a close mentor relationship with Professor Bill Libby and shared the same field of Atmospheric scientific exploration. One of his main contributions to science and environmental protection was his discovery of “GREEN HOUSE GASSES”, Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) as air pollutants and effective/reactive chemicals for destroying the ozone protective layer, and allowing more UV radiation to reach the surface of the Earth and causing skin cancer to our co-humans. He worked closely with Dr. Stamires who independently using different spectroscopic techniques (ESR) compared results and confirmed the findings of Professor Rowland and his student and co-worker Mario Molina at their laboratory at UCI. Both of them together with Paul J. Crutzen received in 1995 the Nobel prize in Chemistry.
