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IVES -- Harry Crockett III, 54, died Sunday morning, December 14, 2003, following a severe brain injury from a bicycle crash on November 17, 2003. He was born October 27, 1949, and was raised in Roswell and various small towns in southeastern New Mexico and west Texas. Harry is survived by his daughter, Atalie M. Liden-Ives and her mother, Katherine Liden; his mother, Carolyn B. Ives; brother, Peter B. Ives; brother, Berry C. Ives and wife, Tara; and nephew, Zachary A. Ives and wife, Laura. He was preceded in death by his father, Harry C. Ives of Roswell. Harry began his career at the Air Force Weapons Lab as a co-op student at NMSU and UNM, and while there made critical contributions to the Shiva accelerator. Later, when he joined the Sandia National Laboratory team with EG&G, one of his first projects was with Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) experiments to develop defensive particle-beam weapons. He played a major role in development of an automatic anode-foil changer for which he was awarded a U.S. Patent. He then became a Lead Engineer in Sandia's Simulation Technology program, the goal of which is to simulate the effects of nuclear explosions on various materials and components. For this effort, Harry helped design the Saturn and Hermes-III Accelerators. Saturn produces x-rays with energies as high as 2 million electron volts, and Hermes-III produces gamma rays with energies as high as 20 million electron volts. He also designed nanosecond-resolution x-ray and gamma ray cameras to monitor these experiments. Harry then became a Lead Engineer for Sandia's Ion-Beam Inertial-Confinement-Fusion (ICF) program, the goal of which was to achieve thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory using the Particle-Beam-Fusion Accelerator (PBFA-II). Harry then became the Lead Engineer for the $13 Z-Accelerator Project, which successfully converted PBFA-II to a z-pinch driver for ICF research. He developed the mechanical design for the center of the Z Accelerator, which has worked routinely at 20 million amps and 50 trillion watts (100-nanosecond pulse) on over a thousand accelerator shots. The total electrical generating capacity of all of the power plants on earth is about 10 trillion watts. The Z is the most successful pulsed-power accelerator in history, and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most powerful laboratory source of x-rays on earth. His work on the Z was documented in seven papers he co-authored for the 1997 International Pulsed Power Conference. Once Z was operational, Harry joined the $20M Z-Beamlet Project, the goal of which was to build a laser-driven x-ray-radiographic backlighter for experiments that were being conducted on Z. Harry was the Lead Engineer for the project, which won a Research and Development Magazine Award for being the most successful laboratory renovation in the United States. Most recently, Harry became the Lead Engineer for Sandia's $60M Z Refurb project. The project's objective is to double the energy and power of Z. Harry was an avid cyclist and a member of the New Mexico Touring Society. In addition to riding the roads and trails of New Mexico frequently with groups and alone, he often rode in organized 50- and 100-mile tours and races in New Mexico and Colorado. Harry also enjoyed painting, writing poetry, reading, and listening to a wide variety of music ranging from Gregorian chant to alternative rock, from jazz to Philip Glass. He played drums in local rock bands in the late sixties. In lieu of flowers please send donations in Harry's memory to: ABQ Bikes HC Ives Memorial Fund PO Box 4119 Albuquerque NM 87196
        Published on: Sun December 21, 2003