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Ernest O. Lawrence (M.A. Physics 1923), 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics [1]; Walter Brattain (PhD Physics 1929), 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics [2]; Melvin Calvin (PhD Chemistry 1935), 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [3]
The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute is a research institute in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering.FTPI was largely the work of physics Professor Emeritus, Stephen Gasiorowicz and university alumnus and Twin Cities real-estate developer William I. Fine. [1] The institute officially came into existence in January 1987. [2]
Lawrence Harding Johnston (February 11, 1918 – December 4, 2011) was an American physicist, a young contributor to the Manhattan Project.He was the only man to witness all three atomic explosions in 1945: the Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
The University of Minnesota (officially the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The Twin Cities campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, approximately 3 mi (4.8 km) apart.
University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences. Coordinates: 33.64454°N 117.84420°W. The Physical Sciences plaza at UC Irvine, with Rowland Hall on the left and Reines Hall on the right. The buildings are named after UCI faculty and Nobel Prize winners F. Sherwood Rowland and Frederick Reines. The School of Physical Sciences is ...
In 1965 he graduated from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in physics. His Ph.D. thesis Properties of superconductors and selected magnetic materials in the configuration of thin films was supervised by William M. Fairbank. Goldman became in 1965 an assistant professor in the physics department of the University of Minnesota. There he was a ...
The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) is a research institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara dedicated to theoretical physics. KITP is one of 20 Kavli Institutes. The National Science Foundation has been the principal supporter of the institute since it was founded as the Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1979.
John D. Linsley. Frank B. McDonald. Edward Purdy Ney (October 28, 1920 – July 9, 1996) was an American physicist who made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy. [1] He was a discoverer of cosmic ray heavy nuclei and of solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high-altitude ...