William E Ogle

Dr. Ogle was a physicist with the Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico from 1944 to 1972, and participated in every nuclear test series in Nevada and the Pacific in those years. He began as an assistant in hydrodynamic experiments for the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb, and became chief of the national laboratory's field testing division. Dr. Ogle was a consultant for the laboratory, starting in 1972. Most recently he was president and board chairman of Energy Systems Inc., of Anchorage. He was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Las Vegas and received a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Nevada and his master of science and doctoral degrees in physics at the University of Illinois. He leaves his wife, Janice; three sons, William, of Santa Fe, N.M., James, of Los Alamos, and Mark, of Anchorage; two daughters, Jean Yabroff, of Livermore, Calif., and Mona Valencia, of Santa Fe,; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.