Draft:Alfred Carl Haussmann, Jr

Carl was born in Geneva, New York on 26 August 1924 to Alfred “Al” Carl Haussmann, Sr (1897-1963) and Marie Roberts (1896-1987), both originally from Pennsylvania.1940 United States Federal Census, Geneva, Ontario, New York, 35-25, 9 April 1940.  Carl’s father was a longtime physics professor and dean at Hobart College (now Hobart and William Smith Colleges).  In 1947, Carl married Alice Wilkerson, and they raised two daughters.

After graduating from Geneva High School in 1942, Carl studied for a year at Hobart College.  He then transferred to the United States Military Academy (USMA) in July 1943, and was an All-American lacrosse player.  According to the [https://digital-library.usma.edu/digital/collection/howitzers/id/21731/rec/1 1946 USMA yearbook], Carl was described as "a stern advocate of technology, his research in the virgin fields of engineering has netted him knowledge of the remote, and he shall plan the harvest of the future."{{Cite web |title=U.S. Military Academy Yearbook, The Howitzer, 1946, p. 235 |url=https://digital-library.usma.edu/digital/collection/howitzers/id/21731/rec/1 |access-date=2023-01-29 |website=digital-library.usma.edu |language=en}}

Carl graduated in 1946 from USMA as a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Military Art and Engineering.  Mr. Haussmann continued his education, taking post graduate courses at the California Institute of Technology, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and then graduated with a Master's degree in Physics from Pennsylvania State University in 1951.  He also attended the Nuclear Weapons Supervisor School at Sandia Base, New Mexico in 1952.

While the vast majority of Carl Haussmann’s career was at LLNL, several early years were spent as the supervisor of the Nuclear Weapons Team of the Defense Atomic Support Agency, Sandia Base, New Mexico and Killeen Base, Texas, and as a team member of the Project Matterhorn “B” (bomb) Design Team, Princeton University. Physicist John Wheeler led this team to control thermonuclear reactions beyond that of the hydrogen bomb.  {{Cite web |last=May |first=Michael |date=2009-12-01 |title="Putting a Face to a Name" |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-pdf/62/10/12/11361636/12_2_online.pdf |archive-url= |access-date=2023-06-19 |website=Physics Today}}{{Cite book |last=Reed |first=Thomas C. |title=At the Abyss: an insider’s history of the cold war |publisher=Presidio Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-89141-821-0 |pages=122-123}}

From 1953-1998, Carl served in numerous positions at LLNL. His first position was as a Military Research Associate working on nuclear weapons design.  After CPT Haussmann left the Army in 1955, he remained at LLNL serving as a civilian researcher.  He worked in numerous LLNL groups and programs including:

·        Thermonuclear Explosive Physics Group,

·        Thermonuclear Design Group,

·        Military Applications Program,

·        Laser Program.

In his long career at LLNL, Carl often served as a group and project leader, and achieved roles as a LLNL Associate Director.  During his tenure, he worked on significant programs including the development of the nuclear warhead for the submarine-launched Polaris missile in the late 1950s.  He is credited for creating the LLNL laser program, combining three small, independent laboratory laser fusion projects and recruiting top scientists from the country’s laser community. He focused the program’s efforts toward laser fusion and its potential utility, laser science, thermonuclear explosion physics, diagnostic and code development, effects simulators, and civil power. He helped shape this program by personally recruiting John Emmett, a solid state laser scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory, and William Krupke. {{Cite book |last=Tarter |first=C. Bruce |title=The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=2018 |isbn=9781421425313}}{{Cite web |last=Chrzanowski |first=Paul |title=Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 1952-2017, 65th Anniversary Book |url=https://permanent.fdlp.gov/gpo106889/llnl_65th_anniversary_book.pdf |website=Federal Depository Program}}{{Cite book |last=Tarter |first=C. Bruce |title=The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=2018 |isbn=9781421425313 |pages=314}}{{Cite book |last=Tarter |first=C. Bruce |title=The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=2018 |isbn=9781421425313 |pages=130-132, 158, 159, 161, 172}}{{Cite journal |last=Campbell |first=E. Michael |date=1997 |title=The First 25 Years: 1972-1997 |url=https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/16710 |journal=Laser Programs |issue=UCRL-TB-128043 |via=University of California: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Laser Programs}}

Carl also worked to further the development of supercomputers. In 1983, he spoke at a Congressional House Subcommittee.  As noted in an article of the Association of Computing Machinery:  {{Cite journal |last=Dallaire |first=Gene |date=April 1984 |title=American universities need greater access to supercomputers |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358027.358030 |journal=Communications of the ACM |language=en |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=292–298 |doi=10.1145/358027.358030 |issn=0001-0782 |s2cid=43294185}}

From Carl Haussmann, associate director-at-large of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--"Availability and utilization of leading-edge computing capability on campuses," Haussmann told a House subcommittee last year, "is almost nonexistent; with respect to computing, the universities, generally speaking, are in the 'Stone Age.' This is a national disgrace." Turning his attention to the Japanese, Haussmann said that they "recognize that supercomputers may well be a key to dominance in large scale science and technology and in medium- to high-technology industries." "There is no reason why supercomputing techniques now being used at Livermore," he said, "can't be applied to designing airplanes, skyscrapers or refineries. Those organizations--American or foreign--which most effectively develop and exploit these techniques will dominate their fields of endeavor."

The culmination of his career was serving as the Advisor to the LLNL Director, Emeritus, 1988-1998. 

Carl Haussmann’s accomplishments were acknowledged by a number of senior leaders at LLNL, including former LLNL directors Roger Batzel, Edward Teller (co-inventor of the hydrogen bomb and co-founder of LLNL), Harold Brown (also later a Secretary of Defense), John Nuckolls, and other leaders like C. Bruce Tarter, Thomas C. Reed, and John Emmett. Their praise and comments can be found in an article about Carl that was published in the Science and Technology Review, the official LLNl magazine.

As an LLNL Associate Director, Carl Haussmann left a lasting legacy to the organization.  Beyond development of significant research programs, Carl was recognized as the driving force behind a major landscaping project to significantly improve the site with the purpose of attracting and retaining top scientists.  Hundreds of trees were planted. In recognition of his efforts, “[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lake+Haussmann/@37.687962,-121.7048143,341m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x808fe0a6a0f75465:0x9144576e90135981!8m2!3d37.6878212!4d-121.7036918!16s%2Fg%2F1whdjllw?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D Lake Haussmann]” was named on the organization grounds.{{reflist}}

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