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Wendell H. Furry

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Wendell H. Furry
Born
Wendell Hinkle Furry

(1907-02-18)February 18, 1907
DiedDecember 17, 1984(1984-12-17) (aged 77)
Alma materUniversity of Illinois
Known forFurry's theorem
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum field theory
InstitutionsHarvard University
Doctoral advisorJames Holley Bartlett
Doctoral studentsRolf Landauer

Wendell Hinkle Furry (February 18, 1907 – December 17, 1984) was a professor of physics at Harvard University who made contributions to theoretical and particle physics.[1] The Furry theorem is named after him.

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Early life

Furry was born in Prairieton, Indiana on February 18. 1907. [1] He earned an A.B. degree from DePauw University in 1928 and an A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1930 and 1932, respectively.[2][3]

Career

Furry made contributions to the early development of quantum field theory with J. Robert Oppenheimer, Vladimir Fock, and others. During World War II, he worked on radar at MIT's radiation laboratory.[citation needed] He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1949.[4]

After the war, Furry continued teaching at Harvard, later becoming a full professor and serving for three years as chairman of the physics department from 1965 to 1968.[2] After several years of half-time partial retirement, he accepted full retirement in 1977.[5]

McCarthyism

In 1953, Furry was subpoenaed several times as a suspected communist by the House Unamerican Activities Committee and by US Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege in refusing to answer questions about his past membership in the Communist Party. In early 1954, he dropped the Fifth Amendment defense in a nationally televised hearing before Senator McCarthy and answered questions about himself but refused to name others. He was indicted for contempt of Congress but the case was dropped several years later.[6]

Furry was defended by newly appointed Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey, who refused McCarthy's demands that Furry be fired.[7] He co-authored a general physics text of the time with Purcell and J. C. Street.[8]

Furry taught himself Russian and for many years supplemented his income by translating and editing Russian physics journals published by the American Institute of Physics. He later played a significant role in the writing of Irving Emin's Russian—English Physics Dictionary (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1963), a work that is still widely used today. Furry's contribution is acknowledged in the preface on p. vii.[citation needed]

As part of his wartime work at the MIT Radiation Laboratory he did significant, still useful work on radar propagation that is documented in Chapter 2 (pp. 27–180) in Vol. 13, Propagation of Short Radio Waves, edited by Donald E. Kerr, as a part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory Series, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1951.

Death

Furry died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 17, 1984, aged 77.[1]

Works

  • Physics for science and engineering students (1952)[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "W.H.Furry". AIP. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Wendell Furry, Array of Contemporary American Physicists
  3. ^ Furry, Wendell H. (1932-03-15). "Excited Electronic States of Li2". Physical Review. American Physical Society (APS). 39 (6): 1015–1017. Bibcode:1932PhRv...39.1015F. doi:10.1103/physrev.39.1015. ISSN 0031-899X.
  4. ^ "Wendell H. Furry". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  5. ^ Wendell Hinkle Furry, Memorial Minute adopted by the faculty of arts and sciences, Harvard University, November 18, 1986.
  6. ^ Lewis, Lionel S. Cold War on Campus: A Study of the Politics of Organizational Control Transaction Publishers (January 1, 1989) pp. 69–75.Google Books
  7. ^ Profile, time.com. Accessed February 19, 2024.
  8. ^ Physics for Science and Engineering Students,  W. H. Furry, E. M. Purcell, and J. C. Street, 1952, The Blakiston Company, New York.

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