In Memoriam: Priscilla Duffield
Priscilla Duffield
Priscilla Duffield, Robert Wilson’s first secretary, died on July 21 at her home in Norwood, CO. She was 91.
Duffield joined Fermilab, then National Accelerator Laboratory, on Nov. 6, 1967, when the laboratory’s offices were based in Oak Brook. She served as founding director Robert Wilson’s first secretary until she left the laboratory on Dec. 31, 1972.
While she preferred the title secretary, Wilson referred to Duffield as his assistant director in his Golden Book, “Starting Fermilab.”
Prior to working at the laboratory, she served as secretary to Ernest Lawrence, whom the Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories were later named after; for Robert Oppenheimer, during and after he worked on the Manhattan Project; and for Roger Revelle of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.