Bruce Allyn Blevins

I think of Bruce often and especially when my grandson Owen asks constantly for us to give him math problems. He must have gotten his love of math from Bruce and our father. I miss him and feel that he left this earth much too early.

Bristol project we worked on in 2005.

One of his research projects and friend.

Great mind.

I miss Bruce most every day but I especially grieve that he is not here to see his grand daughters grow up and to be with his whole family. I know he would be fighting the good political fight as well as things are even crazier now than ever before.

I remember Bruce as a friend and business partner who was always willing to help. I always thought he was one of the most knowledgeable people I knew and will miss the interesting discussions we had trying to figure out some of the problems we encountered as well as some of the crazy things we had to do to get things to work.
I wish we could have had more time on the adventure we started. Rest in peace.

Bruce was a key friend of my brothers and myself from grade school through high school. Looking back, two facets of Bruce's personality stick out in my mind.
The first is that he was remarkably uninterested in the probability of a project being successful:
He tried to go from raw potatoes to vodka in one day: no time for fermentation, but he enjoyed assembling the still from Pyrex lab-ware.
Making use of a glass toroid (doughnut) and some deuterium acquired from LASL's "Salvage", he...

My favorite Bruce recollection:

My brothers & I grew up around the corner from the Blevins house in a new development. For a long time Bruce was the only boy roughly our age in the neighborhood, and we used to hang out together all the time. Being interested in science & electronics, Bruce, my older brother and I were a regulars at the Los Alamos Laboratory Surplus Yard. This was where the Lab sold (for 35 cents a pound!) all the stuff they no longer needed. For a bunch of...