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obert Lincoln Carman, Jr., PhD, retired since
2003, had been employed with Rockwell International Corporation (now known as Boeing) in Canoga Park, California, as a program manager since 1984. Subsequently, he established his own consulting international firm, Carman & Associates Executive Consulting. Realizing he wanted to still contribute to his industry, Dr. Carman began consulting when a European company reached out to him in the hopes to develop an electric motor for airplanes once it landed to ease the jet engines. As a consultant, he has never advertised or sought out business—potential clients contact him directly, seeking his expertise, in which they typically are able to strike an agreement.
Prior to his employment with Boeing, Dr. Carman spent a decade, from 1974 to 1984 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico as a special project leader and program manager. Before that, from 1970 to 1973, he was a group leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and in 1974, he was promoted to director of the laser fusion program. He also served as founder, chief executive officer and president of KDC Technology in Livermore, California, between 1982 and 1988.
Responsible for the development of transient spectroscopy, Dr. Carman developed and founded the field with fellow associate and former full professor and Nobel Prize winner Nicholas Bloembergen of Harvard University. He also discovered the underlying physics limiting the scale-up of solid-state lasers, generated the first terawatt sub picosecond pulse lasers and performed fundamental studies on self-focusing phenomena using them. He currently holds three patents and has three additional patents pending in his area of expertise.
Dr. Carman was a New York State Regents scholar, an Adelphi College general scholar, a National Science Foundation Fellow, and a Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow. He started his higher education at Adelphi College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Physics in 1962. Afterward, he began working as a staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory in 1964, and in
1968, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Harvard University. He also holds a programming management degree from West Coast University.
Throughout his career, Dr. Carman has been active with several industry related organizations, such as the American Physical Society and the National Management Association. He has also written extensively in his field, contributing articles to professional journals and chapters to books. In 1974, he was contributing author to a book entitled, “Heritage of Copernicus.” In the coming years, Dr. Carman plans to continue his work as a consultant and hopes to travel more.
Prior to his employment with Boeing, Dr. Carman spent a decade, from 1974 to 1984 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico as a special project leader and program manager. Before that, from 1970 to 1973, he was a group leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and in 1974, he was promoted to director of the laser fusion program. He also served as founder, chief executive officer and president of KDC Technology in Livermore, California, between 1982 and 1988.
Responsible for the development of transient spectroscopy, Dr. Carman developed and founded the field with fellow associate and former full professor and Nobel Prize winner Nicholas Bloembergen of Harvard University. He also discovered the underlying physics limiting the scale-up of solid-state lasers, generated the first terawatt sub picosecond pulse lasers and performed fundamental studies on self-focusing phenomena using them. He currently holds
three patents and has three additional patents pending in his area of expertise.