David Allan Bromley

David Allan Bromley, D. Allan Bromley often cited as, ( born May 4, 1926 in Westmeath, Ontario, Canada; † 10 February 2005 in New Haven, Connecticut) was a Canadian- American nuclear physicist, known as a pioneer of Heavy Ion Physics. He was also an influential organizer of science in the United States.

Bromley studied physics at Queen 's University in Kingston (Bachelor in 1948 with honors, master's degree in 1950 ) and at the University of Rochester, where he became in 1952 a doctorate in nuclear physics. He subsequently Instructor and Assistant Professor from 1953. In 1955 he went as a scientist at the Canadian state nuclear company Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.. in Chalk River. In 1958 he became head of department there. In 1960 he went back to the USA and in 1961 professor at Yale University and deputy director of the Heavy Ion Accelerator Laboratory. In 1963 he founded the AW Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale University, which he directed until 1989. 1970 to 1977 he was Director of the Department of Physics at Yale. At Yale, he was from 1972, Henry Ford II Professor of Physics and since 2001 the first Sterling Professor of the Sciences. After his time as an advisor to the U.S. President from 1989 to 1993 he was Dean of the Engineering Faculty in 1994 at Yale, where he stayed until 2000. He continued to hold until his death of a heart attack lectures at Yale.

He was a U.S. citizen in 1970. He was a consultant in the Nixon administration and in both the scientific advisory committee at U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 1989 to 1993 as well as scientific adviser ( Assistant to the President for Science and Technology) by George HW Bush and first director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. He made at this time for a strengthening of science funding in the U.S. and the expansion of the Internet later.

Bromley has published over 500 scientific articles, especially on heavy ion reactions and nuclear structure.

Bromley was more honorary doctorates (including University of Frankfurt). In 1988 he received the National Medal of Science. In 2001 he received the Nicholson Medal of the American Physical Society, which he was president in 1997. In 1990 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences.