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8. Francis Wheeler Loomis
8. Francis Wheeler Loomis
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He was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, in 1889, just ten years before a small banct of stalwarts created the American Physical Society in an attempt to foster physics on a national scale. For although physics in America tract always been appreciated in a peripheral manner (one thinks of the remarkable work of Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Henry, Henry RowlancI, Abraham Michelson anti WilIarct Gibbs)
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involved thermodynamic measurements on the element mercury- a field quite different from that In which he ultimately distinguished himself. In the early part of this century, Harvard doctoral can(liciates in physics were expected to do experimental theses and Loomis enjoyed experimental work.
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When World War ~ intervened, he became a research investigator in the Army Ordnance Department with the rank of captain. He was put in charge of antiaircraft range-firing and the preparation of associated ballistic tables.
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Loomis rlecidecl to accept the position at Illinois, andaside from a four-year period! as associate director of the Radiation Laboratory at MIT cluring World War Il.
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there. WORLD WAR II: THE RADIATION LABORATORY AT MIT World War II intervened just at the time Loomis felt he had achieved his goal in developing a large, productive, mod
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Loomis's creep involvement with the Radiation Laboratory occupied his mind and physical energies completely and macle a lasting imprint on him. The close personal associations he experienced there remained strong for the remaincler of his life.
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Addressing the Society on his retirement he spoke on the theme "Can Physics Serve Two Masters? " In this speech he expressed his deep conviction that, whatever else individual physicists became involved in, their principal obligation lay in the disclosure of the unclerlying properties of nature.
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Of everything that occurred at Illinois during the years following World War IT, that of which he was perhaps most proud was the evolution within the department of the term "Loomis tenure." This expression was applied to the ironclad promise Loomis occasionally made to nontenured staff who Haiti been offered attractive positions elsewhere.
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Wood. Optically excited iodine bands with alternate missing lines.
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Uber einen Versuch zur Auffindung des Ramaneffekts en Metallelektronen.
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