Ernest M. Henley | |
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 Henley at the Second International Conference on Research and Communications in Physics | |
| Born | (1924-06-10)10 June 1924 |
| Died | 27 March 2017(2017-03-27) (aged 92) |
| Alma mater | City College of New York University of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics |
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| Fields | Nuclear physics |
| Institutions | Stanford University Columbia University University of Washington |
| Thesis | Π-Meson Production by Protons on Nuclei (1952) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kenneth M. Watson |
Ernest Mark Henley (June 10, 1924 – March 27, 2017[1]) was an Americanatomic andnuclear physicist.[2]
In 1944 Henley received a B.E.E. inelectrical engineering from theCity College of New York. From 1944 to 1946, he served in the U.S. Navy, decommissioning and repairing electrical equipment on ships and submarines. He worked at the Airborne Instruments Laboratory as an electrical engineer from 1946 to 1948. Between 1950 and 1951 he worked atStanford University, and received a Ph.D. fromUC Berkeley in 1952. From 1952 to 1954, he was a Jewett Fellow and lecturer atColumbia University. In 1954, Henley accepted a faculty position at theUniversity of Washington where he remained for his entire career, serving as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences between 1979 and 1987.
Over the course of his research career, Henley studied symmetries in nuclear physics.[3]From 1979 to 1987 he was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences there and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Nuclear Physics in 1990-1991. He was ProfessorEmeritus since 1995.[4] He dedicated his retirement to teaching Physics at the University of Washington'sTransition School and Early Entrance Program, the Robinson Center for Young Scholars.[5] In 2014 at the age of 90 Henley retired from this position.
In 1979 he was elected a member of theNational Academy of Sciences. In 1992 he was president of theAmerican Physical Society, where he chaired the Nuclear Physics section from 1979 to 1980. In 1989 he received theTom W. Bonner prize in nuclear physics. In 2005 he received an honorary Dr. rer. nat. in physics from the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany.[citation needed]
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