William Robert Stratton

William Robert (Bill) Stratton, 91, APS member and ANS Fellow; served as an aviator in the U.S. Navy during WW II, earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Minnesota (1951); spent his career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on reactor safety and criticality safety; member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, 1967-1975 (chair, 1974); served on the technical staff to the President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island; retired from LANL in 1982; two-time recipient of the ANS Special Award (1981 and 1984); chaired the ANS Special Committee on Source Terms (1984-85); received the ANS Walter H. Zinn Award (2001); active in the APS and the local ANS Trinity section; consulted for many years and co-authored, with members of the Los Alamos Education Group, letters and papers on nuclear energy published in local and national publications; died October 3 in Albuquerque, N.M.