Personal: | ||
Born, Alamogordo, New Mexico, March 2, 1902. | ||
Education: | ||
A.B. 1924, Ph.D. 1926, University of California (Berkeley). | ||
D.Sc. (hon.): | Delhi (India), 1950; New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1950; Alfred University, 1951; American University, 1951. | |
Positions: | ||
1926-27 | National Research Fellow, Gottingen and Munich. | |
1927-28 | Lecturer in Physics, Columbia University | |
1928-29 | Asst. Prof. of Physics, Princeton University. | |
1929-30 | Prof. of Theoretical Physics, University~of Minnesota. | |
1930-37 | Assoc. Prof. of Physics, Princeton University. | |
1937-45 | Assoc. Director of Research, Westinghouse Electric Corp. | |
1945-51 | Director, National Bureau of Standards; Member, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. | |
1951-54 | Director of Research and Development, Corning Glass Works. | |
1955 | Consulting Physicist, Corning Glass Works. | |
1956-63 | Wayman Crow Professor of Physics, and Chairman, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. | |
1962-63 | Visiting Professor of Physics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. | |
1963- | Professor of Physics and Fellow of Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado. | |
1957- | Editor, Reviews of Modern Physics. | |
Books: | ||
Quantum Mechanics (with P. M. Morse) (1929). (Paperback reprint, 1963) | ||
The Theory of Atomic Spectra (with G. H. Shortley) (1935). Paperback Reprint, 1963. | ||
Handbook of Physics (with Hugh Odishaw) (1958). | ||
Principal Research Contributions: | ||
Franck-Condon Principle in Molecular Physics. | ||
Barrier Leakage Theory of Radio-activity (with R. W. Gurney). | ||
Theory of Optical Rotatory Power. | ||
Theory of Proton-Proton Scattering (with G. Breit). | ||
Theory of Charge-Independence of Nuclear Forces (with B. Cassen). | ||
Micro-Wave Radio and Radar. | ||
Theory of Contact Potential of Semi-Conductors. | ||
Committee Activities: | ||
Member, S-1 Committee on Military Application of Atomic Energy, 1943-4. | ||
Member, NDRC Committee responsible for setting up research on rockets at California Institute of Technology. 1941-3. | ||
Scientific Adviser, Special Senate Committee on Atomic Energy, 1945-6. | ||
Member, President's Scientific Evaluation Board, Operation Crossroads (Naval Atomic Bomb Tests, Bikini), 1946. | ||
Chairman, Advisory Committee on Color Television to Senate Commerce Committee, 1950. | ||
Member, Commission on College Physics, 1963- | ||
Editor, Momentum Books, for Commission on College Physics, 1961- | ||
Member, Panel on Mathematics for Physics and Engineering for Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics, 1961- . | ||
Vice-president, Annual Reviews, Inc. (non-profit-publishers, Palo Alto, California), 1962- . | ||
Chairman of Editorial Board, International Science and Technology, 1962- | ||
Professional Recognition: | ||
President, American Physical Society, 1946. | ||
President, Philosophical Society of Washington, 1951. | ||
President, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1953. | ||
Member, National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | ||
Honorary Foreign Member: | ||
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences | ||
Societe' Francaise de Physique | ||
Royal Society of Arts | ||
Fellow, Institute of Radio Engineers. | ||
President-elect, American Association of Physics Teachers, 1963. |