Local News in Brief : Private Rites Held for Physicist Breckenridge
Private memorial services have been held for Robert G. Breckenridge of Northridge, former director of physics research at the Atomics International Division of Rockwell International Corp.
Breckenridge died Friday in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 70.
He headed physics research at Rockwell International’s Canoga Park facility from 1964 until ill health forced his retirement in 1972.
He had previously been director of the Union Carbide Corp. Research Institute and the Parma Research Laboratory, chief of solid state physics for the National Bureau of Standards and head of the physics branch of the Office of Naval Research.
Breckenridge was a native of Jamestown, N.Y., and a graduate of Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in 1942 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he remained as research associate and assistant professor until 1948.
Breckenridge was a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the American Chemical Society and the Academies of Sciences of Washington, D.C., and New York City.
He is survived by his wife, Alma.
Contributions in his name can be made to Recording for the Blind Inc., 5022 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, 90027.
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