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Robert E. Fassnacht (January 14, 1937 – August 24, 1970) was an American physics post-doctoral researcher who was killed by the August 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, perpetrated as a protest against the Vietnam War.
In 1982, Hitchon joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the department of electrical and computer engineering. [3] [5] He became a professor in 1994 and served as the department chair from 1999 to 2002. [3] [5] In 2022, he took retirement. [7] During his tenure, he authored three books. [3]
Donald William Kerst was born in Galena, Illinois November 1, 1911, [1] the son of Herman Samuel Kerst and Lillian E Wetz. [2] He entered the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1934, and then his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1937, [3] writing his thesis on "The Development of Electrostatic Generators in Air Pressure and Applications to Excitation ...
He received his BS (physics) 1963, Pennsylvania State University, his MS (physics) 1965, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his Ph.D. (physics) 1968, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Awards and honors
Raymond George Herb (January 22, 1908 – October 1, 1996) was an American professor of nuclear physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was known for building electrostatic accelerators. His work influenced the Manhattan Project, which built the first nuclear weapons.
Erwin Nick Hiebert (May 27, 1919 – November 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American physical chemist and historian of science. [1] He taught numerous students who would go on to become leading figures in the history of science, particularly women such as Carolyn Merchant and Mary Jo Nye, during academic tenures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard University.
His autobiography appears at H.H. Barschall, "Reminiscences," Physics in Perspective 1 (1999) 390–444. [ 8 ] Barschall died at age 81 on February 4, 1997 in Madison, WI.
William Rudolph Kanne (7 July 1913 – 24 October 1985), was a physicist, inventor and pioneer in the field of gas flow through ionization detectors, a member of the group responsible for the first self-sustained nuclear chain fission reaction at Staggs Field in Chicago, and participated in the Manhattan Project at the Chicago, Oak Ridge and Hanford sites.