Wayne B. Nottingham

Wayne Buckles Nottingham (born April 17, 1899 in Tipton (Indiana) , † December 4, 1964 in Aerdenhout ) was an American physicist.

Life

Nottingham began his studies at Purdue University and continued it in 1920 as a Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation for one year at Uppsala University. After returning to the USA, he went to Princeton University , where he received his doctorate in 1928 under Karl Taylor Compton with the thesis Normal arc characteristic curves: dependence on absolute temperature of anode . In 1929 he also earned the title of electrical engineer from Purdue University. From 1926 to 1931 he was a fellow of the Bartol Research Foundation. In 1931 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In the same year he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an assistant professor of physics . In 1936 he became an associate and in 1964 a full professor. At MIT, he conducted research in the Research Laboratory of Electronics on the physical principles of electronics and specifically on thermionic emissions. He developed various electronic measuring devices. During World War II he was an associate of the MIT Radiation Laboratory at the Office of Scientific Research and Development in Washington, DC

In 1952 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He died on December 4, 1964 while on a European tour in the Netherlands .

Honors

The Nottingham Prize has been awarded at the annual Physical Electronics Conference (PEC) since 1966.

Fonts

• Wayne B. Nottingham: Thermionic emission . Ed .: Siegfried Flügge (=  Handbuch der Physik . Volume 21 ). Springer, Berlin 1956, p. 1-178 .

Web links

• Wayne Buckles Nottingham (obituary). Find a Grave , accessed July 26, 2017 (Source: Boston Traveler, December 9, 1964). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society, accessed July 27, 2017 (list). 
2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter N. (PDF; 283 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved July 27, 2017 (English). 
3. ^ The Nottingham Prize. (No longer available online.) Physical Electronics Conference, archived from the original on August 5, 2017 ; accessed on July 27, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.