Alan Tower Waterman | |
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1st Director of the National Science Foundation | |
In office 1951–1963 | |
President | |
Succeeded by | Leland J. Haworth |
Personal details | |
Born | Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York | June 4, 1892
Died | November 30, 1967 Washington, D.C. | (aged 75)
Nationality | |
Alma mater | Princeton |
Awards | Public Welfare Medal (1960) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | U. of Cincinnati Yale Office of Scientific Research and Development Office of Naval Research NSF |
Thesis | On the positive ionization from certain hot salts, together with some observations on the electrical properties of molybdenite at high temperatures (1916) |
Doctoral advisor | Owen Willans Richardson |
Alan Tower Waterman (June 4, 1892 – November 30, 1967[1]) was an American physicist.
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