Bernard Waldman

Bernard Waldman
Bernard Waldman's wartime Los Alamos security badge
Born	(1913-10-12)October 12, 1913 New York, New York
Died	November 1, 1986(1986-11-01) (aged 73) Sanford, North Carolina
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Los Alamos Laboratory University of Notre Dame Michigan State University
Alma mater	New York University
Thesis	The Resonance Processes in the Disintegration of Boron by Protons (1939)
Known for	Physics, Bombing of Hiroshima

Bernard Waldman (October 12, 1913 – November 1, 1986) was an American physicist who flew on the Hiroshima atomic bombing mission as a cameraman during World War II.

A graduate of New York University, joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame in 1938. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy as an engineering officer. He headed a group that conducted blast measurements for the Trinity nuclear test, and served on Tinian with Project Alberta.

After the war he returned to Notre Dame. He was director of the Midwestern Universities Research Association Laboratory from 1960 to 1964, dean of its Notre Dame College of Science at Notre Dame from 1967 to 1979, and associate director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory from 1979 to 1983.

Bernard Waldman was born in New York City on October 12, 1913. He attended New York University, from which he received Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. His thesis, on "The Resonance Processes in the Disintegration of Boron by Protons", formed the basis of a paper published in the Physical Review. His research supported the estimates of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Robert Serber.

Although he was a Congregationalist, Waldman joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame in 1938. He became an assistant professor in 1941.