Neal H. Williams Explained

Neal H. Williams
Birth Date:	1870
Death Date:	1956
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Physicist
Workplaces:	University of Michigan
Alma Mater:	University of Michigan
Doctoral Advisor:	Karl Eugen Guthe
Doctoral Students:	Walter S. Huxford Claud E. Cleeton
Known For:	Microwave spectroscopy

Neal Hooker Williams (1870–1956) was a physicist notable for the very first spectroscopic measurements at microwave frequencies. He carried this out with a magnetron and investigated the spectrum of gaseous ammonia together with his student Claud E. Cleeton. This formed the groundwork for the later inventions of the radar and the gas laser.

Education

He completed his PhD in 1912 at the University of Michigan with a thesis entitled The Stability of Residual Magnetism. ^[1]

Books by Williams

• Walter S. Huxford and Neal H. Williams, Determination of the Charge of Positive Thermions from Measurements of the Shot Effect, Minneapolis, Minn., 1929.
• Claud E. Cleeton and Neal H. Williams, Electromagnetic Waves of 1.1 cm Wave-Length and the Absorption Spectrum of Ammonia, Lancaster, Pa., Lancaster press, inc., 1934.
• Harrison M. Randall, Neal H. Williams, and Walter F. Colby, General College Physics, New York, London, Harper & brothers, 1929.
• Neal H. Williams, The Stability of Residual Magnetism, New York, 1913.

See also

• Trigonal pyramidal molecular geometry
• Ammonia
• Microwave spectroscopy
• Claud E. Cleeton

References

Sources

• Mario Bertolotti, The History of the Laser CRC Press, 2004, .

External links

• Williams' 1936 Physical Review paper
• Williams in classbook of 1928
• Williams' math genealogy

Notes and References

1. Book: The stability of residual magnetism. https://web.archive.org/web/20231019164914/https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990039393800106381?library=All+libraries&query=The+Stability+of+Residual+Magnetism. 2023-10-19. 2023-10-19. live.