Benson, Bruce B. 1922-1990
Bruce B. Benson papers, 1939-1988.
This collection includes Benson's class notes and exams from college and graduate school; teaching notes and assignments from courses he taught at Amherst; draft articles about physics that he wrote, along with reprints of his published articles; material from college-wide faculty committees on which he served; and a small number of photographs and pieces of incoming correspondence.
Bruce Buzzell Benson was born in 1922 in Choteau Montana, and enjoyed his alliterative name, often signing notes as "B3." He graduated with a B.S. in Physics from Amherst College in 1943 and received an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in 1945 and 1947, respectively. Benson taught physics at Amherst College from 1947 until his death in 1990. He also served as an associate at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute from 1957-1967. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958. Benson's research specialties were nuclear physics and oceanography. His wife, Lucy Wilson Benson, was very involved with liberal politics and policy on a state and national level, serving in turn as national president of the League of Women Voters, Massachusetts Secretary for Health and Human Services, and U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs.
Benson, Bruce B. 1922-1990
Photographs.
Articles.
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents).
Photographs.
Teaching -- Materials.
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Amherst College. Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library P.O. Box 5000 Amherst, MA 01002, USA