Hugh Bradner was an American physicist at the University of California who lived from 1915 to 2008 and who is credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit, which helped to revolutionize scuba diving and surfing. A graduate of Miami University in Ohio, he received his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in 1941. He worked at the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory during the Second World War, where he researched naval mines, and in 1943 he was recruited by Robert Oppenheimer to join the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory.
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Hugh Bradner (November 5, 1915, May 5, 2008) was an American physicist at the University of California who is credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit, which helped to revolutionize scuba diving and surfing.
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Hugh Bradner, a University of California, Berkeley, physicist, invented the modern wetsuit in 1952.
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