Leland John Haworth

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Leland John Haworth (born July 11, 1904 in Flint , Michigan , † March 5, 1979 in Port Jefferson , New York ) was an American physicist, director of the National Science Foundation and the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and president of the American Nuclear Society .

Life

Haworth studied at Indiana University Bloomington until 1926 , then was a teacher at a high school in Indianapolis and received his doctorate in 1931 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with the thesis Secondary Electrons from Very Clean Metals Surfaces when Bombarded with Primary Electrons . From 1930 to 1937 he was employed by the University of Wisconsin as an Instructor of Physics . From 1937 to 1938 he was a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1938 he moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he 1944 Full Professor ( Full Professor was). During the Second World War he was involved in military research and development projects at the MIT Radiation Laboratory from 1941.

In 1947 he first became Assistant Director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). From 1948 to 1961 he was director of the BNL. During his work as director he initiated the design and construction of various particle accelerators (including the Cosmotron ) and research reactors. From 1955 to 1960 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and from 1957 to 1958 he was President of the ANS. In 1961 he was appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission by US President John F. Kennedy . As the successor to Alan T. Waterman , he became director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on July 1, 1963. In this position, he sponsored various projects such as Project Mohole and the planning of the Very Large Array telescope . He was director of the NSF until 1969. After 1969 he worked mainly for the non-profit organization Associated Universities, Inc.

Haworth has received numerous awards and honors. In 1938 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1976 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1965 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences . He has received honorary doctorates from several universities (Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Columbia University , Bucknell University).

The asteroid (1824) Haworth was named after him.

literature

  • Maurice Goldhaber , Gerald F. Tape : Leland John Haworth . A Biographical Memoir. Ed .: National Academy of Sciences (=  Biographical Memoirs of the NAS . Volume 55 ). Washington DC 1985, ISBN 978-0-309-03540-8 , pp. 355-382 ( nasonline.org [PDF]).
  • Thomas W. Ennis: Leland Haworth Dies; Physicist Was a Brookhaven Lab Director . In: New York Times . March 6, 1979, p. 6 ( online [accessed October 5, 2018]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Leland John Haworth. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Haworth, Leland John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and science manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Flint , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH March 5th 1979
Place of death Port Jefferson , New York