Orin Tugman

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Orin Tugman (born May 26, 1880 in Rockville , Indiana , † June 30, 1987 in Orlando , Florida ) was an American physicist and university professor .

Life

Family and education

Orin Tugman, born in Rockville , Indiana, son of James R. Tugman and his wife Harriet, née Fisher, turned to studying physics at Indiana University in Bloomington after completing compulsory schooling , where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1903 . Orin Tugman He subsequently graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca in the state of New York continues, there he acquired in 1909 the degree of Ph. D.

The Protestant baptized Orin Tugman married on October 6, 1912, Eupha, born Foley, who died on August 8, 1944 at the age of 56. The children Robert F. and Loretta came from this connection. Orin Tugman, who moved his retirement home from Salt Lake City , Utah, to Orlando, Florida in 1962 , died there at the end of June 1987, one month after he had turned 107.

Professional background

After graduating from Indiana University, Orin Tugman took a position as a research assistant at the Department of Physics at Purdue University in West Lafayette , Indiana, and in 1906 he moved to the Department of Physics at Cornell University in the same position . In 1909 he moved to the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg , Maryland, as assistant physicist . The following year Orin Tugman took on an engineering position at the Western Electric Company in New York City . In 1912 Tugman moved to Rochester , where he was appointed Associate Physicist with the Eastman Kodak Company .

In 1915 Orin Tugman followed a call from the University of Utah to an associate professorship in physics, where he was promoted to professor, head of the Department of Physics and chairman of the Graduate Council in 1922 , and in 1947 he was retired. Orin Tugman, one of the most renowned physicists in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, was a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers , the American Association of University Professors , the Phi Beta Kappa , the Sigma Xi and the Phi Kappa Phi. In 1922 he was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

  • The effect of electrical oscillations on the conductivity imparted to gases by an incandescent cathode, Thesis (Ph. D.) - Cornell University, 1909, New era printing company, Lancaster, PA., 1909
  • together with Perley Gilman Nutting: Intensity Relations in the Hydrogen Spectrum, in: The Astrophysical Journal , volume 31, Published by the University of Chicago Press for the American Astronomical Society, Chicago, 1910, pp. 62-77.
  • together with Perley Gilman Nutting: The intensities of some hydrogen, argon, and helium lines in relation to current and pressure, in: Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, v. 7, no. 1., Govt. Print. Off., Washington, 1911
  • An Adaptation of the Koch Registering Microphotometer to the Measurement of the Sharpness of Photographic Images, in: The Astrophysical Journal, volume 42, Published by the University of Chicago Press for the American Astronomical Society, Chicago, 1915, p. 321.
  • The Resolving Power of Photographic Plates, in: The Astrophysical Journal, volume 42, Published by the University of Chicago Press for the American Astronomical Society, Chicago, 1915, pp. 331-343.
  • Newspaper Science, in: Science, Volume 53, Moses King, New York, NY 1921, p. 389.
  • The mission of the scientist, in: Bulletin of the University of Utah, v. 32, no. January 7, 1942, The Extension division, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1942

literature

  • Bulletin: Of the American Association of University Professors, in: Volume 24 of Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, American Association of University Professors, American Association of University Professors, Boston, 1938, p. 634.
  • The supplement to Who's who: a current biographical reference series, volume V-VI, Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1944, p. 104.
  • Who was who in America. : volume VII, 1977-1981 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1981, pp. 578, 579.
  • Mary Craven Purvis: Craven: descendants of Peter Craven, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA, M. Craven Purvis, Asheboro, NC, 1985, p. 426.
  • ORIN TUGMAN, 107, 1720 Santa Maria Place, Orlando, died Tuesday, in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper July 2, 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ APS Fellow Archive , accessed October 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Tugman, Orin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockville , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1987
Place of death Orlando , Florida