About Edward Alan Knapp
Lived 1932 – 2009 (aged 77). Edward Alan Knapp was an American physicist.
Edward Alan Knapp (March 7, 1932 – August 17, 2009) was an American physicist and was director of the National Science Foundation from 1982 to 1984.
Knapp graduated with BA from Pomona College in 1954, and with a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1958. He then moved to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, where he became division leader of the accelerator technology division.
In 1978, he was a guest scientist in the USA–USSR Exchange Program in Fundamental Properties of Matter.
Knapp died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 17, 2009, after battling pancreatic cancer.
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Physicist and Director of the National Science Foundation
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Edward Alan Knapp was born on 7 March 1932 in Salem.
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