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| | 1 | Name: | Felix Bloch | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 9/10/83 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Aage Bohr | | | Institution: | University of Copenhagen | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | September 8, 2009 | | | | | | |
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1922, Aage Bohr is the son of Margrethe and Niels Bohr. Growing up among physicists like Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg, he became a notable nuclear physicist in his own right. In 1946 he became an associate at the Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen, ultimately serving as director of the institute from 1963-70. From 1950 Dr. Bohr worked closely with Ben Mottelson to develop the understanding of nuclear structure. They presented the status of the field in a monograph of two volumes. The first volume, Single-Particle Motion, appeared in 1969, and the second volume, Nuclear Deformations, in 1975. Their efforts on this project and their collaboration on nuclear theory led them to receive the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Leo James Rainwater, for research on the quantum mechanical description of nucleons orbiting inside a wobbly rotating droplet. Dr. Bohr was also the second recipient of the American Physical Society's Dannie Heinemann Prize for his investigations of the interaction of the nucleus with the electron shell and his contributions to the understanding of nuclear spectroscopy. Author of numerous articles in scientific journals, Dr. Bohr is a man of deep and broad interests. Having lived and worked in Denmark, Sweden, England and the United States, he currently holds an Emeritus position at the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute. | |
| 3 | Name: | Leland John Haworth | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | 03/05/79 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. John W. Milnor | | | Institution: | State University of New York, Stony Brook | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 104. Mathematics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | | | | |
John W. Milnor is a professor at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he also co-directs the Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Known for his work in differential topology, K-theory and dynamical systems, Dr. Milnor was for many years associated with Princeton University, earning his Ph.D. there in 1954 and becoming Henry Putnam University Professor of Mathematics in 1962. His most celebrated single result is his proof of the existence of 7-dimensional spheres with nonstandard differential structure. Later, he showed that the 7-sphere has 15 differentiable structures (28 if you consider orientation). An n-sphere with nonstandard differential structure is called an exotic sphere, a term coined by Dr. Milnor. An accomplished mathematical writer with numerous books and papers, including many on topology and game theory, to his credit, he has also served as editor of the Annals of Mathematics since 1962. That same year, Dr. Milnor was awarded the Fields Medal for his work in differential topology, and since that time he has received many other awards, including the National Medal of Science (1967), the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (1982), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1989), the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2004), and both the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Acheivement and the Abel Prize in 2011. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Walter H. Munk | | | Institution: | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 105. Physical Earth Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | February 8, 2019 | | | | | | |
Walter H. Munk was a brilliant scholar and scientist who was considered one of the greatest oceanographers of his time. His principal interests included global acoustics, greenhouse warming, tides and the air-sea boundary. Dr. Munk received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. for work at the Scripps Institution, which he has been affiliated with throughout his career. During World War II, Dr. Munk and Harald Sverdrup, then the director of Scripps, developed a system for forecasting breakers and surf on beaches, a technique of crucial importance in military amphibious landings. During the 1946 testing of nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll in the southern Pacific Ocean, Dr. Munk participated in analysis of the currents and diffusion in the lagoon and the water exchange with the open seas. In 1963, he led a study of attenuation in ocean swells generated in Antarctica, measuring fluctuations with pressure sensing devices lowered to the ocean floor. Measurements also were made at six Pacific Ocean locations and from FLIP, the Floating Instrument Platform, developed at Scripps. In 1969 he began measuring tides in the deep sea, using highly sophisticated pressure-sensing instruments that were dropped to the ocean floor and retrieved by acoustic release. Dr. Munk also played a leading role in developing new methods for tracking long-term changes in climate associated with global warming as part of the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) project. The idea behind ATOC is to send sound signals from underwater speakers and track how long it takes them to reach receivers moored to the floor of the Pacific thousands of miles away. Because sound travels faster in warmer water than cooler water, a long-term series of tests that recorded increasingly faster travel times indicates that the ocean is warming. Dr. Munk received numerous honors for his work, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences (1956) and the Royal Society of London (1976). He was a Guggenheim Fellow three times and was awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal, the Sverdrup Gold Medal and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, among other honors. In 1999 he received the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences for his fundamental contributions to the field of oceanography and in 2010 he was awarded the Crafoord prize. At the end of his career he was Research Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Walter H. Munk died on February 8, 2019 in the La Jolla section of San Diego at the age of 101. | |
| 6 | Name: | Lord Todd | | | Institution: | University of Cambridge | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 1/10/97 | | | | |
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