E. Royce Fletcher, Ph.D      
Dr. Fletcher, physicist, a 1964 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a Ph.D. degree in physics. He began his career in 1959 and continued until 1964 at the Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research as a research associate while graduate student.

From 1964 to 1985, he was Head, of the Department of Physics. He first worked on a theoretical model to predict the motion of objects translated by classical blast waves. He headed an experiment to determine the aerodynamic-drag parameters of small irregular objects by means of drop tests. Dr. Fletcher developed a Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer (circular slide rule) based on Lovelace empirical data and data from "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons." He later revised the Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer that is included in the current edition of "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons."

His considerable contributions also included models extended to such problems as the displacement of man as a result of a nuclear-produced blast wave; a model designed to study the lung during exposure to a pressure wave, a model designed to study the thoraco-abdominal response of underwater blast; and experiments to establish scaling laws so that the models may be extended to predict the effects in man produced by shock waves. Dr. Fletcher was a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Sigma Tau, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Mu Epsilon, and Sigma Xi.

 

      
     

 

 

 

 
       
  1. from B.S. Martinez, Blast Overpressure Research Program; Kirkland Airforce Base 1951-1998, Jaycor Technical Report J2997.74-99-10.  Ft. Detrick, Frederick, Maryland
        
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