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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as SubjectWilliam Martin Fairbank
Dates
February 24, 1917 – October 1, 1989
Authorized Form of Name
Fairbank, William Martin, 1917-1989
Additional Forms of Names
Fairbank, William M.
Biography
Abstract
William M. Fairbank was Emeritus Professor of Physics at Stanford University (1959-1989). Other institutional affiliations included Duke University and Amherst College. His research interests included the superfluidity of liquid helium and magnetic flux.
Important Dates
February 24, 1917Birth, Minneapolis (Minn.).
1939Obtained AB, Whitman College, Walla Walla (Wash.).
1942 – 1945Staff Member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Radiation Laboratory.
1947 – 1952Assistant Professor of Physics, Amherst College, Amherst (Mass.).
1948Obtained PhD in Physics, Yale University, New Haven (Conn.).
1952 – 1959Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics, Duke University, Durham (N.C.).
1959 – 1989Professor to Max H. Stein Professor of Physics (1959-1985) and Emeritus Professor of Physics (1985-1989), Stanford University, Stanford (Calif.).
1963Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society.
October 1, 1989Death, Palo Alto (Calif.).
Occupation
Low-temperature physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Advisors & Collaborators
Lane, Cecil Taverner, 1904-
PhD Advisor at Yale University in Superconductivity.
Colleagues
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Drell, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1926-
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Friedman, Jerome I. (Jerome Isaac), 1930-
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Hänsch, T. W. (Theo W.), 1941-
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Kendall, Henry W. (Henry Way), 1926-1999
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Meyerhof, Walter E. (Walter Ernst), 1922-
Both employed at Stanford University.
Nelson, Ann E. (Ann Elizabeth)
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999
Both employed at Stanford University.
Schiff, Leonard I. (Leonard Isaac), 1915-1971
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-1982
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Both employed at Stanford University.
Additional
Pippard, A. B.
Institutions
Major Positions
Amherst College. Department of Physics
Assistant Professor of Physics.
Duke University. Department of Physics
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory
Staff Member.
Stanford University. Department of Physics
Professor to Max H. Stein Professor of Physics and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Received 1963 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.
Whitman College
Obtained AB (1939).
Yale University. Physics Department
Obtained PhD in Physics (1948).
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
William Martin Fairbank papers, 1961-1989.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Subject
Oral history interview with Alfred Brian Pippard, 1982 September 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with William Conyers Herring, 1974 July 23, 29, and 31 October.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Stanford University Department of Physics records, 1966-1985 (bulk 1971-1985).
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA