William Earle Bradley Jr. (January 7, 1913 – September 19, 2000) was an American engineer and businessman who was the first president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
He began on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisory Panel,[2] chairing a subcommittee on missile defense as part of an arrangement with MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
[2] In 1970 Bradley moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he founded Puredesal Corp., which researched energy-efficient water purification.
[2] Bradley played a prominent role in the early life of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
In October of that year Bradley became the organization's first president[6] at the urging of Ed Block, who worked under him at Philco[7] and who spearheaded SIAM's creation.