Wayne B. Hales
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Wayne Brockbank Hales (1893 – May 3, 1980) was an American physicist, educator and academic administrator. He was president of
Biography
Hales was born in
After graduating from BYU Hales taught at
In 1926–1930 Hales taught at Weber College (now
He became an emeritus professor in 1972 but continued to show up at BYU every day. Among other projects he wrote some of the typescripts used as sources for the four volume centennial history of BYU. He also taught in BYU's continuing education department until his death.
Hales for a time was editor of the BYU Physics and Astronomy Newsletter. He was one of the bishops called to preside over one of the first wards in the first BYU stake. He was also the first president of the BYU 5th Stake.[2] Hales later served as a stake patriarch in the LDS Church.
In 1916, Hales was married to Isabel Ethel Wilson. They had six children. Isabel died in 1963. Hales later married Vivian Parkinson.
Awards and honors
He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1934.[3] After his death, a Wayne B. Hales memorial scholarship was established in his honor.
References
- ^ Wilkinson. Brigham Young University: The First 100 Years. Vol. 3, p. 436
- ^ LDS Church Almanac, 2011 Edition, p. 403
- ^ Search at Historic Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science on 11 October 2023
Further reading
- Wayne B. Hales 1893–1980. JSTOR 26222396
- William J. Strong (1981). Wayne B. Hales 1893–1980. doi:10.1121/1.385793
External links
- Ernest L. Wilkinson and Leonard J. Arrington, ed., Brigham Young University: The First 100 Years (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1976) Vol. 3, p. 106.
- L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library section on Hales
- BYU Magazine Winter 1999, article on BYU's 10 most influential professors
- set of listings on Snow's various president's administrations
- Obiuary of Wayne B. Hales from the Hales Family Newsletter
- Wayne B. Hales papers, MSS 5676 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University
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