Walter S. Huxford
Walter Huxford | |
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| Born | December 15, 1892 Doane College |
| Doctoral advisor | Neal H. Williams |
| Notable students | Richard W. Jones |
Walter Scott Huxford was an American professor of physics at Northwestern University and was a co-inventor of the sunburnometer.[1]
Education
His education included a bachelor's degree at
University of Nebraska, and a PhD degree at the University of Michigan
in 1928, with a thesis entitled: Determination of the Charge of Positive Thermions form Measurements of the Shot Effect.
Career
He spent two years as an officer in the
Doane College, where he was head of the Physics Department, and three years as an industrial physicist. He joined the faculty of Northwestern University
in 1931, where he continued to serve as a teacher and research scientist until his death.
His primary research interests were physical electronics and the dynamics of electrical discharges in gases, in which fields he and his research students published numerous papers. During and following the second world war he served as director of research and development programs at Northwestern on the use of optical radiation for communication, sponsored by the US Army Signal Corps
.
Honors
His contributions to the national defense were recognized by award of the Army and Navy Certificate of Merit in 1947. Huxford was a fellow of the
Optical Society of America
.
References
- "Necrology," J. Opt. Soc. Am. Vol. 48, p. 637, 1958.
- Who's Who in America, 1950–1952.
Notes
External links
- Huxford at BioInfoBank
- Huxford at the AIP archive
- Huxford's Science Magazine article
- Huxford's patent
- Huxford's math genealogy
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