| John Robert Beyster |
Article Index for John Robert |
Website Links For John |
Information AboutJohn Robert Beyster |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT JOHN ROBERT BEYSTER | |
| 1929 births | |
| living people | |
| american physicists | |
|
Educated at the University Of Michigan , Dr Beyster worked as a scientist for Westinghouse in the 1950s before finding employment as a Physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory . In 1957 he became the chairman of the Accelerator Physics Department of General Atomics where he remained until it was bought out by Gulf Oil in 1968 . In 1969 , along with a small group of scientists he formed Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in La Jolla, California . He served as CEO of this company until his retirement on 2004-07-16 . A former naval man, Beyster enjoys sailing and is the owner of a 55-foot sailboat. Since 1984 , SAIC has backed a number of U.S entries in the America's Cup race. As a scientist, Beyster is the author or co-author of about 60 publications, including a book entitled Slow Neutron Scattering And Thermalization . |
|
|