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Robert Bigham Brode
Robert Bigham Brode
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FRETTER ASSISTED BY DAVID L JUDD THE EMINENT PHYSICIST, distinguished educator, public servant, academic statesman, and professor emeritus of the University of California, Robert Bigham Brode, died February 19, 1986, at his home in Berkeley, California.
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his professional experience as- an associate physicist in the Bureau of Standarcis. He held a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford in 1924-25, a National Research Fellowship at Gottingen in 1~925-26, and a research appointment at Princeton in 1926-27.
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He was well remembered by many students as the instructor in the upper-division course on electricity and magnetism. He participated regularly in the Monday Night Journal Club started by Ernest Lawrence in the 1930s, often contributing reports of his own research and keen comments on the work of others.
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During his entire period "on the mesa" from 1943 until he returned to Berkeley in 1946, Bob Brode was in charge of the "fusing group." Their early work was directed toward adapting proximity fuses and developing barometric-pressure switches. The latter program led to creation of a sizable organization that, in cooperation with the Air Force at distant air bases, used elaborate instrumentation to collect and interpret data on the evolving designs.
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They were a sincere, sophisticated but unaffected couple cloing all they could to help others and to maintain a civilized environment cluring times of great stress.'? POSTWAR TEACHING AND RESEARCH After the war, Brocle resumed his teaching and research on measurements of momentum, specific ionization, and range of cosmic ray mesons.
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; American Association for the Advancement of Science (president of the Pacific Division) ; National Research Council (chairman, Physics Division Executive Committee)
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He was also an associate of the Carnegie Institution and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Optical Society of America, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the American Institute of Physics, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Delta Sigma Rho, and other groups. He was acting director of the Space Sciences Laborator,v at Berkeley in 1964-65 and was director, in London, of the University's Education Abroad Program in the United Kingdom in 1965-67.
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clegree, University of California, 1970 The citation for the final honor listecl above serves to sum up his career: Brilliant physicist, talented teacher, scientific statesman, creative administrator, for over four decades you have inspired countless students. Your interest has ranged from slow electrons in atoms to swift mesons in cosmic rays.
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and respected by all who knew him. He and his diminutive wife Bernice residecT happily for many years high in the Berkeley hills in a distinctive house of rustic redwood design, constructed in part by Bob with his own hands, and later in a similar house nearer the campus.
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Nuclear disintegrations produced by cosmic rays.
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40:120-21. Design and characteristics of a magnet for cosmic ray cloud chamber studies.
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