Ward Plummer

Earl Ward Plummer (born October 20, 1940 in Astoria (Oregon) - † July 23, 2020 ) was an American physicist who researched surface chemistry .

Career

Plummer received a BA in physics and mathematics from Lewis and Clark College in 1962 and a PhD in physics from Cornell University in 1968 . At the National Bureau of Standards he was an NRC Fellow from 1967 to 1968, then a Staff Scientist until 1970 and Assistant Section Chief until 1973. He moved to the University of Pennsylvania , where Plummer was Associate Professor of Physics until 1977 and Professor of Physics until 1988. Until 1992 he held the position of William Smith Professor of Physics. From 1993 he was at the University of Tennessee as Distinguished Professor of Physics and, from 2009, as Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University .

Plummer researched phenomena that arise in connection with unique environments on surfaces through broken symmetries or reduced dimensionality, especially when electronic, magnetic and structural properties combine.

Awards and memberships

1983 Davisson-Germer Prize
1985 Fellow of the American Physical Society
2006 member of the National Academy of Sciences
2014 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Web links

Home page of Plummer at Louisiana State University

Individual evidence

^ E. Ward Plummer Bio at aip.org. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on August 23, 2012 .
^ Elsa Hahne, Mimi LaValle: LSU Mourns the Passing of Internationally Renowned Professor E. Ward Plummer. Louisiana State University, accessed July 29, 2020 .
^ Prize Recipient Plummer. Retrieved on August 23, 2012 .
^ National Academy of Sciences. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 16, 2012 ; accessed on August 23, 2012 .

personal data
SURNAME	Plummer, Ward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Plummer, Earl Ward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 20, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Astoria (Oregon)
DATE OF DEATH	23rd July 2020

[1] E. Ward Plummer Bio at aip.org. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on August 23, 2012 .

[2] Elsa Hahne, Mimi LaValle: LSU Mourns the Passing of Internationally Renowned Professor E. Ward Plummer. Louisiana State University, accessed July 29, 2020 .

[3] Prize Recipient Plummer. Retrieved on August 23, 2012 .

[4] National Academy of Sciences. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 16, 2012 ; accessed on August 23, 2012 .