Chalmers W. Sherwin (1916–2007) was an American physicist.
He was born at Two Harbors, Minnesota and gained a B.S. degree at Wheaton College (Illinois) and a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1940. He worked in the Radiation Laboratory of MIT from 1941 to 1945, where as part of the war effort he helped in the development of an advanced distant-warning system and airplane-mounted radar. He then worked as an assistant in the physics department at Columbia University in 1946 before becoming assistant professor of physics at the University of Illinois and professor of physics there in 1951. From 1954 to 1955 he was on secondment to the U.S. Air Force as Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force. [1]
From 1961 he worked at Aerospace Corporation. As head of research at General Atomic, he oversaw the development of a carbon heart valve. He wrote two college physics texts and secured numerous patents.[2] Around 1959 as a physicist at the University of Illinois, he had suggested a computerised learning system which would eventually become the PLATO system in 1960.[3]
He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1946. [4]
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bjbj{P{P NORTH CAMPUS # Donald Bitzer and Chalmers Sherwin In 1960, at the age of 26, University of Illinois Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Donald Bitzer, with Physics professor Chalmers Sherwin, developed the Programmed Logic Automated Teaching Operation, known as PLATO. PLATO was the world s first shared computer-based education system. It included direct instruction, research, and global communication in several different languages. It featured the first on-line community and first e-mail program. PLATO was stocked with so many innovations it was soon used on five continents and at institutions across the U-S. Bitzer, an Illinois alumnus, remained at his alma mater for his entire tenure, retiring in 1989. On subsequent summers, Bitzer would visit the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory to work on various projects. In addition to his academic career, Bitzer is an avid athlete and a professional magician. He was also a member of the 236th Magic Wand Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians during his time at Illinois. In 1978 Bitzer told the Urbana Morning Courier, I like to do things that involve the creativity of people That s the thing about PLATO - it allows people to create, to use their own creativity, not just take what is fed to them. Chalmers Sherwin Chalmers Sherwin was a noted physicist long before he and Bitzer developed PLATO. Sherwin was recruited to Illinois in 1946. From 1954 through1955 he went on leave from the University to serve as Chief Scientist for the Air Force. While there, he worked extensively on his specialty - radar research. In 1955 he started a project called Early Warning Radar Systems . The project was completed between 1958 and 1959. It proved invaluable for U-S national defense. Among his many accomplishments, his two biggest included development of the cathode ray tube - or CRT - and the first synthetic aperture radar. Sherwin retired in 1960. He was one of the many recruits of Physics department head F. Wheeler Loomis who built Illinois' reputation as a leading institution for physics research. Sherwin's honors included the Presidential Certificate of Merit in 1947 and the Scientific Award of the Air Force Association in 1956. h$(| urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags State urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags place urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags PlaceName urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags PlaceType Bitzer & Sherwin Computer Based Education UIUC Normal UIUC Microsoft Office Word University of Illinois Bitzer & Sherwin Computer Based Education Title Microsoft Office Word Document MSWordDoc Word.Document.8
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- ^ Government and Science: Review of the National Science ..., Volume 1; Volume 4. p. 815.
- ^ "Welcome to the University of Chicago Magazine Online". 2007-05-15. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
- ^ "PLATO: From Computer-Based Education to Corporate Social Responsibility". 2003-11-05. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". Retrieved 7 June 2020.
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