The story of Lawrence Preston Gise

Lawrence Preston Gise. US government official who headed Atomic Energy Commission operations in Albuquerque; maternal grandfather of Jeff Bezos.

Family. Maternal grandfather of Jeff Bezos: educated at Princeton University (1986); worked at D. E. Shaw & Co. (Dec 1990 – Jun 1994); founded Amazon (1994). Father of Jackie Bezos: invested in Amazon (Jul 1995).

1958

Lawrence Preston Gise worked at DARPA.

Repeated in accounts of the Bezos family and attributed to Brad Stone’s book; not yet checked against the book’s text or an ARPA personnel record (DTIC’s ARPA history, ADA154363, was unavailable).

Still being verified.

Lawrence Preston Gise worked at the Atomic Energy Commission.

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