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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
SUMMARY:Memories of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck\, Physics Department Coll
 oquium\, Raymond L. Orbach\, University of Texas at Austin
DESCRIPTION:"John Hasbrouck Van Vleck is justly considered to be the f
 ather of modern magnetism.  In an obituary notice\, Comptes Rendu said
  of him: Depuis Willard Gibbs\, mort en 1903\, les Etats Unis n'avaien
 t pas eu de representant de la physique theorique aussi eminent que Va
 n Vleck\; il a ete le maitre a penser de la jeune physique theorique a
 mericaine.'  Few would disagree with this judgement... There is hardly
  any aspect of research in magnetism to which his work has not made an
  important contribution." [B. Bleaney\, Biographical Memoirs of Fellow
 s of the Royal Society 28\, 627 (1982)]  This talk will explore the ba
 sis of these assessments\, beginning with the genealogy of the "Ancest
 ry and Descendants of Tielman Van Vleck" [by his aunt\, Jane Van Vleck
 ]\, his undergraduate experience at the University of Wisconsin\, his 
 doctorate at Harvard\, an Assistant Professorship at the University of
  Minnesota\, his marriage to Abigail Pearson\, his move to the Univers
 ity of Wisconsin as Professor of Physics\, and finally to Harvard wher
 e he held the Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosop
 hy from 1951 to his retirement in 1969.   His immense contributions to
  science and society will be reviewed\, as well as his wit and charm\,
  and of course his love affair with railroad and airline schedules.  F
 inally\, his wonderful mentorship of so many of us will be recalled wi
 th love and affection.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=2995
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