Bruce Faraday, Physicist, 85

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Bruce Faraday, a retired solid state physicist at the Naval Research
Laboratory who helped develop material designed to hide Navy planes,
ships and missiles from radar detection, died April 5, 2005, at his
home in Annandale, Viginia, after a heart attack, at the age of 85.

Dr. Faraday managed a team of scientists and technicians who in the
late 1970s and early 1980s developed radar absorbing magnetic material
that was turned into rubberized sheets and built into planes.

The research effort, known as "Project Newboy," would eventually be
applied to stealth technology.

Dr. Faraday was a native of New York and 1940 magna cum laude physics
graduate of Fordham University. He received a master's degree in
physics from Fordham and a doctorate in the same discipline from
Catholic University in 1963.

He worked nearly 40 years at the Naval Research Laboratory, beginning
in the acoustics division in 1948. He later became head of the
Radiation Effects Branch, where he studied radiation damage from
nuclear and laser weapons.

Dr. Faraday retired from the Naval Research Laboratory in 1986. In
addition to his career there, he was a math lecturer at Prince George's
Community College, a physics lecturer at the University of Maryland and
an adjunct professor of math at Northern Virginia Community College.

His professional honors included the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service
Award and the Superior Civilian Service Award.

He was a member of Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Annandale and the
Knights of Columbuw.

His wife, Beverly Faraday, died in 2001.

Survivors include five children, Diana Bozza of Falls Church, Virginia,
Thomas Faraday of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Christopher Faraday of
Herndon, Virginia, and Deborah Faraday and Richard Faraday, both of
Annandale, Virginia; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

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