Neal H. Williams

Neal H. Williams
Born 1870
United States
Died 1956
United States
Residence United States
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Michigan
Known for Microwave spectroscopy
Scientific career
Fields Physicist
Institutions University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor Karl Eugen Guthe
Doctoral students Walter S. Huxford
Claud E. Cleeton

Neal Hooker Williams (1870–1956) was a physicist notable for the very first spectroscopic measurements at microwave frequencies. He carried this out with a magnetron and investigated the spectrum of gaseous ammonia together with his student Claud E. Cleeton. This formed the groundwork for the later inventions of the radar and the gas laser.

Education

He completed his PhD in 1912 at the University of Michigan with a thesis entitled The Stability of Residual Magnetism. [1]

Books by Williams

  • Walter S. Huxford and Neal H. Williams, Determination of the Charge of Positive Thermions from Measurements of the Shot Effect, Minneapolis, Minn., 1929.
  • Claud E. Cleeton and Neal H. Williams, Electromagnetic Waves of 1.1 cm Wave-Length and the Absorption Spectrum of Ammonia, Lancaster, Pa., Lancaster press, inc., 1934.
  • Harrison M. Randall, Neal H. Williams, and Walter F. Colby, General College Physics, New York, London, Harper & brothers, 1929.
  • Neal H. Williams, The Stability of Residual Magnetism, New York, 1913.

See also

References

  • Mario Bertolotti, The History of the Laser CRC Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7503-0911-3.

Notes

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