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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as SubjectAlbert Wallace Hull
Dates
April 19, 1880 – January 22, 1966
Authorized Form of Name
Hull, Albert Wallace, 1880-1966
Additional Forms of Names
Hull, Albert
Biography
Abstract
Albert Wallace Hull was Consultant, Research Laboratory at General Electric Company (1914-1966). Other institutional affiliations included Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Albany Academy. His research interests included magnetrons and thyratrons.
Important Dates
April 19, 1880Birth, Southington (Conn.).
1905Obtained AB, Yale University, New Haven (Conn.).
1905 – 1906Teacher of French and German, Albany Academy.
1909Obtained PhD in Physics, Yale University, New Haven (Conn.).
1909 – 1914Instructor in Physics (1909-1912) and Assistant Professor of Physics (1912-1914), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester (Mass.).
1914 – 1966Physicist, Research Laboratory (1914-1928); Assistant Director, Research Laboratory (1928-1950); and Consultant, Research Laboratory (1950-1966), General Electric Company, Schenectady (N.Y.).
1929Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1943President, American Physical Society.
1944Researcher, Office of Scientific Research and Development.
January 22, 1966Death, Schenectady (N.Y.).
Occupation
Research physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Physics -- Industrial applications.
Relationships
People
Colleagues
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Bain, Edgar Collins, 1891-1971
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Coolidge, William David, 1873-1975
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
DuMond, Jesse W. M. (Jesse William Monroe), 1892-1976
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Edgerton, Harold Eugene, 1903-1990
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Slichter, Louis B. (Louis Byrne), 1896-1978
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Suits, C. Guy (Chauncey Guy), 1905-1991
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Webb, M. B. (Maurice Barnett), 1926-
Both employed at General Electric Company.
Additional
Cady, Walter G. (Walter Guyton), 1874-1974
Dennison, David M. (David Mathias), 1900-1976
Morgan, Stanley Owen, 1900-
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Institutions
Major Positions
General Electric Company. Research and Development Center
Consultant.
General Electric Company. Research Laboratory
Physicist; Assistant Director; and Consultant.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development
Researcher.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Department of Physics
Instructor in Physics and Assistant Professor of Physics.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
President.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member.
Yale University. Physics Department
Obtained AB and PhD in Physics (1909).
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Albert W. Hull papers, 1920-1964.
Schenectady Museum
Nott Terrace Heights, Schenectady, NY 12308, USA
Albert Wallace Hull review of activities, circa 1939.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
California Institute of Technology Chemistry Division selected correspondence files, 1935-1958.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Subject
Oral history interview with David Mathias Dennison, 1964 January 27, 28 and 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John F. Waymouth, 2008 October 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Stanley Owen Morgan, 1975 July 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Walter Guyton Cady, 1963 August 28 and 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Reminiscences of Albert Wallace Hull, 1951.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
The Princeton years and beyond, 1930-1940: Invited paper for the March 1992 meeting of the American Physical Society, 1992.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Subject
"Albert Wallace Hull: 1880-1966", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences