Alvin Andreas Herborg Nielsen
Alvin H. Nielsen (30 May 1910 – 3 November 1994) was an American physicist in molecular spectroscopy.
Life[]
Nielsen was born in Menominee, Michigan.[1] He graduated from the University of Michigan, taught at the Ohio State University, and then relocated to the University of Tennessee in 1935.[1] He spent 1951 to 1952 at the Astrophysical Institute in Liège.[1] Nielsen achieved widespread recognition for his work in spectroscopy and wrote eighty-five publications. He served as chairman of the physics department at the University of Tennessee.[1] He was the brother of Harald Herborg Nielsen.[1]
Honors[]
In 1980, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville named its physics building the Alvin H. Nielsen Physics Building in Nielsen's honor.
References[]
External links[]
- Alvin Andreas Herborg Nielsen, Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
Categories:
- 1910 births
- 1994 deaths
- 20th-century American physicists
- People from Menominee, Michigan
- American people of Danish descent
- University of Michigan alumni
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
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