Biographical Memoirs Volume 76 (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Edwin C. Kemble
Edwin C. Kemble
Pages 178-197
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After a short time cloing war work en c! a half semester teaching physics at Williams College, Kemble returnee!
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Martha Chacibourne Kettelle, his Racicliffe fiancee from graduate student clays. As a graduate student Kemble macle an exciting en c!
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At the time the physics department at Harvarc! was hospitable neither to the new quantum physics making its appearance on the Continent nor to a practice of physics that incluclec!
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about the unraveling of molecular structure, a feat accomplishes! by the stucly of molecular spectra.
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the traclitional electroclynamic identification of racliation with mechanical frequencies.) With his inclusion of nonlinear terms Kemble obtainer!
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anharmonicity of vibrational motion. A short piece on Kemble in McGraw-Hill's Men of Science series sharply criticizes Kemble for his equating of radiation frequencies with mechanical frequencies and his ignorance of Bohr's new frequency condition that gives racliation frequencies as differences in energy (rather than as
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in June of 1917 the country was at war. Kemble felt it his duty to clevelop airplane engines at Curtiss Aircraft Company, which he clic!
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Course 22 [the special topics course] is designed especially for this, and would nominally be taken only by those students specializing in theoretical physics, of whom we shall hope for an increasing number.
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In fact, this was generally true of the emerging quantum physics community in the Uniter! States cluring the twenties, the focus was on molecular structure, not, as in Europe, on atomic structure.
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on atomic structure in their quest for the foundation of quantum theory, the Americans achiever! maturity as physicists by studying the quantum nature of molecular structure.
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The education of American quantum physicists in the early twenties through the stucly of molecular structure set the stage for an American-clominatec! cliscipline of quantum chemistry in the late twenties en c!
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The care and consideration Kemble brought to his unclerstancling of quantum mechanics in many ways a mea cuIpa for his earlier decision to clisregarc! the theory in 1927 was antithetical to a pursuit of his own research in molecular structure.
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in 1945 was part of the overseas ALSOS mission, whose topsecret job was to uncover German atomic bomb research. Kemble enjoyoc!
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security restrictions in the National Science Foundation bill of 1950, encourages! scientists to join the Fecleration of American Scientists cluring the Cold War, and played a role in the peace movement as part of a Methodist congregation.
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recognize his value as a community builcler, a task so in concert with his religious beliefs. Kemble's most important contributions to research were introducing the stucly of a quantum molecular structure to the Uniter!
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Kuhn, October 1, 1963. Archives for the History of Quantum Physics.
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7:614-24. The distribution angular velocities among diatomic gas molecules.
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47:973-74. 1937 The Fundamental Principles of Quantum Mechanics.
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EDWIN C KEMBLE 1954 Scientists and political action.
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