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VITAE FOR DR. E. U. CONDON

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.

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