C. Bruce Tarter

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Curtis Bruce Tarter (born September 26, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist. He was the director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1994 to 2002. As director emeritus he recently published the first comprehensive history of the laboratory.