Herbert P. Broida

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Herbert Philip Broida (born December 25, 1920 in Aurora (Colorado) , † April 9, 1978 in Santa Barbara (California) ) was an American physicist who worked in the field of atomic and molecular spectroscopy .

Life

Broida began his academic training at the University of Colorado in economics, sociology, and philosophy, then switched to physics at Harvard University in the early 1940s . Due to the consequences of his early childhood poliomyelitis , he was not drafted into military service during World War II and taught military personnel at Wesleyan University . After the war he went back to Harvard University , where he received his doctorate in 1949 with a thesis on the application of photoelectron multipliers . He then worked for the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC until 1963. In 1952 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship , with which he spent a year at Imperial College London . In 1953 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and in 1957 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

In 1963 he went to the newly established Department of Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). There he played a key role in setting up the Laboratory for Molecular Physics. He was one of the first researchers to recognize the great potential of lasers in the study of molecules. From 1973 he was director of the University's Quantum Institute . He held numerous positions. He was chairman of the Chemical Physics department at APS. He has published more than 200 scientific articles.

He died on April 9, 1978 near Santa Barbara in a hiking accident.

Honors

Since 1980, the American Physical Society has awarded the Herbert P. Broida Prize for outstanding achievements in atomic and molecular spectroscopy or chemical physics.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ O. Oldenburg, HP Broida: Application of Photoelectric Multiplier Tubes to the Sensitive Measurement of Absorption or of Changes of Relative Light Intensities . In: Journal of the Optical Society of America . tape 40 , no. 6 , 1950, pp. 381-385 .
  2. ^ Fellows of the AAAS: Herbert Broida. American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed July 28, 2018 .
  3. ^ Herbert P. Broida Prize. American Physical Society, accessed December 23, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Broida, Herbert P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broida, Herbert Philip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurora (Colorado)
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1978
Place of death Santa Barbara (California)