Albert Smith, PhD

Albert T. Smith is a retired geophysicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he spent his career applying geophysical methods to national security and earth science problems. Smith earned his doctorate in geophysics from MIT in 1971, supported by a Hertz Fellowship, with a thesis examining time-dependent strain accumulation and release at island arcs and the implications for the 1946 Nankaido earthquake — contributing to the understanding of subduction zone seismicity and earthquake hazard. He subsequently joined Lawrence Livermore, where geophysics research has long intersected with the laboratory’s national security mission.