Emory Leon Chaffee
Emory Leon Chaffee (born April 15, 1885 in Somerville, Massachusetts , † March 8, 1975 in Waltham , Massachusetts ) was an American physicist .
Chaffee studied electrical engineering at MIT and received his bachelor's degree in 1907. He then continued his studies at Harvard , where he received his master's degree and his doctorate in 1911. During his doctoral thesis he discovered a method for generating continuous, coherent electromagnetic oscillations of more than 100 MHz and using it for radio telephony. He became a tutor, rose to assistant professor in 1917, associate professor in 1923 and finally to full professor in 1926. In 1916 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
In 1924 he became a pioneer in the field of weather control. From the plane he tried to inoculate clouds with charged grains of sand.
In 1940 he took over the Rumford Professorship for Physics, and in 1946 the Gordon McKay Professorship for Vacuum Physics. He became director of the Cruft Laboratory and co-director of the Lyman Laboratory.
From 1949 to 1952 he was chairman of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Physics. He also worked in the fields of vacuum tubes and optics.
He was the author of two books and co-author of another.
Works
- Chaffee, Emory Leon: Theory of thermionic vacuum tubes: fundamentals; amplifiers; detectors . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1933
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chaffee, Emory Leon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Somerville, Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1975 |
| Place of death | Waltham , Massachusetts |