Edward L. Fireman (1922 – March 29, 1990) was an American physicist, known for his radiometric dating method of freshly fallen meteorites.
[3] In 1948 he got a doctorate from Princeton University, where his thesis advisor was John Archibald Wheeler, and in 1950 got a job as a physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
He also developed methods for measuring the ages of prehistoric polar ice and designed a climatic record chart.
He studied the cosmic neutrino background needed to interpret the solar neutrino experiment of his friend and collaborator Raymond Davis Jr. at Homestake Mine in South Dakota by using the overlaying soil and rock as a filter to remove other types of radiation.
[4] The asteroid 4231 Fireman, discovered at Harvard's Oak Ridge Observatory in 1976, was named in his memory.