Edith Halbert Explained

Edith Conrad Halbert
Birth Date:	23 April 1931
Birth Place:	New York City, NY
Death Place:	Oak Ridge, TN
Workplaces:	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Alma Mater:	University of Rochester
Thesis Title:	A shell model for the even-parity states of N¹⁵ and general results for states of parity (-)A̳¹ in the nuclei 5 ≤A ≤ 16
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17611049
Thesis Year:	1957
Doctoral Advisor:	James Bruce French
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Children:	3

Edith Conrad Halbert (23 April 1931 – 31 December 2023)^[1] was an American physicist, elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972.^[2] She worked on computations in the nuclear shell model at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Education

Halbert attended Cornell University,^[3] where she was elected to Sigma Xi^[4] and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1951.^[5] She then went to the University of Rochester to pursue graduate studies in physics. At Rochester, she was the student of James Bruce French.^[6] She earned a doctorate in 1957^[7] with a PhD thesis entitled A Shell Model for the Even-Parity States of Nitrogen-15.^[8]

Career

She worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,^[9] where she directed the development of the Oak Ridge–Rochester Multi-Shell Program, a computer program used to compute the properties of atomic nuclei based on the nuclear shell model.^[10] While at Oak Ridge, she also worked as a visiting scientist in the low energy nuclear theory group at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the nuclear theory group at Stony Brook University.^[11]

Personal life

Halbert came from a Forest Hills, New York family. She married Melvyn Halbert of Jamaica, New York, also a Cornell and University of Rochester physics student^{[12] [13]} and later an Oak Ridge researcher.

Selected publications

• Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Reactions Between Complex Nuclei, May 2–4, 1960, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 1961. New York & London. John Wiley & Sons. A.. Zucker. F. T.. Howard. E. C.. Halbert. ^{[14] [15]}
• Halbert. E. C.. January 1964. Optical-model analysis of elastic deuteron scattering. Nuclear Physics. en. 50. 353–402. 1964NucPh..50..353H. 10.1016/0029-5582(64)90216-0.
• Austern. N.. Drisko. R. M.. Halbert. E. C.. Satchler. G. R.. 1964-01-13. Theory of finite-range distorted-waves calculations. Physical Review. en. 133. 1B. B3–B16. 1964PhRv..133....3A. 10.1103/PhysRev.133.B3. 0031-899X.
• McGrory. J. B.. Wildenthal. B. H.. Halbert. E. C.. 1970-07-01. Shell-model structure of ⁴²⁻⁵⁰Ca. Physical Review C. en. 2. 1. 186–212. 1970PhRvC...2..186M. 10.1103/PhysRevC.2.186. 0556-2813.
• Ichimura. Munetake. Arima. Akito. Halbert. E. C.. Terasawa. Tokuo. April 1973. Alpha-particle spectroscopic amplitudes and the SU(3) model. Nuclear Physics A. en. 204. 2. 225–278. 1973NuPhA.204..225I. 10.1016/0375-9474(73)90272-8. 4564483.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Edith Conrad Halbert . . 26 March 2024.
2. Web site: Fellows nominated in 1972 by the Division of Nuclear Physics. APS Fellow Archive. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210109075911/https://aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1972&unit_id=DNP&institution= . 2021-01-09 . 2020-08-26. American Physical Society. en.
3. Web site: The Cornell Daily Sun 30 October 1951. 2020-08-26. cdsun.library.cornell.edu.
4. Cornell Alumni News. 54. 1. July 1951. 1813/27580. Sigma Xi Elects. 15.
5. Web site: The Cornell Daily Sun 8 June 1951. 2020-08-26. cdsun.library.cornell.edu.
6. Koltun. Daniel S.. September 2002. James Bruce French. Physics Today. en. 55. 9. 77–79. 10.1063/1.1522227. 2002PhT....55i..77K. 0031-9228. free.
7. News: 1957-06-10. Degrees Awarded at UR's Commencement. 16. Democrat and Chronicle. 2020-08-26.
8. Halbert. Edith C.. A Shell Model for the Even-Parity States of Nitrogen-15. 1957. PhD. University of Rochester. 1957PhDT........21H.
9. April 1964. We Hear That. Physics Today. en. 17. 4. 98–100. 10.1063/1.3051583. 1964PhT....17d..98.. 0031-9228.
10. Nuclear Physics Research: Little Things Mean a Lot. 156–160. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review. 25. 3–4. 1992.
11. Book: Domestic assignments and leaves of absence. 180. Physics Division Annual Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 1971. May 1972. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 10.2172/4921301. Obenshain. F. E.. 4921301.
12. Web site: Cross Sections, Department Of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Winter 2002.
13. Web site: The Cornell Daily Sun 17 January 1951 . 2021-02-21 . cdsun.library.cornell.edu.
14. July 1961 . 195 . Science Progress . 43425322 . 587–600 . Books received . 49.
15. Book: Wigner, E. P. . Eugene Wigner . Mehra . Jagdish . Review of the Second Gatlinburg Conference on Reactions Between Complex Nuclei . 10.1007/978-3-662-07791-7_40 . 261–269 . Springer . Berlin & Heidelberg . The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner . Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses . 2001.