THE AUTHOR 



HAL E. ANDERSON received his bachelor's 

 degree in physics from Central Washington 

 State College in 1952. He was employed 

 by General Electric Company from 1952 

 to 1961, except for 2 years of military 

 duty, and worked in thermal and nuclear 

 instrumentation. In 1961 he came to the 

 Intermountain Station's Northern Forest 

 Fire Laboratory at Missoula, Montana, as a 

 member of the Fire Physics Project. He 

 was Project Leader from 1962 to 1966. He 

 is now Project Leader of the Fuel Science 

 Research Work Unit and is responsible for 

 research on fuel thermodynamics and com- 

 bustion properties. 



