Donald F. Holcomb

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Donald F. Holcomb

Physics

#4395

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#6048

Historical Rank

#1471

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Donald F. Holcomb's Degrees

PhD Physics Stanford University
Masters Physics Stanford University
Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Donald Frank Holcomb was an American physicist. Born in Chesterton, Indiana, on November 8, 1925, Holcomb was raised in primarily in Wood River, Illinois, and graduated from East Alton-Wood River High School in 1943. His university studies were interrupted by military service in the United States Navy. After obtaining a bachelor's degree from DePauw University in 1949, Holcomb pursued graduate study at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completing a Ph.D. in 1954. He began teaching at Cornell University that same year. In 1964, Holcomb became the third director of the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. In his career, Holcomb spent some time abroad. He received a Sloan Research Fellowship from 1955 to 1957, was named a NATO senior visiting fellow at the University of Oslo in 1962, a Guggenheim fellow in 1968 while at the University of Kent, and a Science Research Council visiting fellow at University of St. Andrews in 1978. He was granted fellowship into the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The American Association of Physics Teachers awarded Holcomb its Oersted Medal in 1996, a year after his retirement from Cornell. He died at home in Ithaca, New York, on August 9, 2018, aged 92.

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Donald F. Holcomb's Published Works

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Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition in n -Type Group IV Semiconductors (1968) (211)
NUCLEAR SPIN RELAXATION IN ALKALI METALS (1955) (143)
Interpair Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in Hydrated Crystals (1962) (62)
Transport properties of cubic NaxWO3 near the insulator-metal transition (1976) (56)
NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE STUDIES OF THE METALLIC TRANSITION IN DOPED SILICON (1964) (52)
Metal-insulator transition in Si: As (1983) (50)
Percolation in Heavily Doped Semiconductors (1969) (46)
NMR and structural properties of CsAu and RbAu (1978) (37)
The Introductory University Physics Project 1987–1995: What has it accomplished? (1998) (36)
The Introductory University Physics Project (1993) (35)
NMR in Hydrate Crystals: Structural Information from Broadened Fine‐Structure Lines (1963) (31)
Taxonomy of F‐Aggregate Centers in NaF (1969) (31)
Magnetic properties of electrons and holes in metallic Si:P and Si:B (1974) (26)
Structural Interpretation of Asymmetrically Broadened NMR Fine‐Structure Lines (1963) (24)
Proton Spin—Lattice Relaxation in Barium Chlorate Monohydrate (1964) (18)
Microwave studies of color centers in barium oxide (1959) (17)
P31Knight shifts and spin dynamics in Si:P at temperatures comparable to the Fermi temperature (2005) (13)
Quantum electrical transport in samples of limited dimensions (1999) (13)
Metal-insulator transition in a double-donor system, Si:P,As. (1983) (13)
A calibration curve for room‐temperature resistivity versus donor atom concentration in Si:As (1985) (9)
P 31 Spin Echoes in Metallic Phosphorus-Doped Silicon (1971) (9)
Nuclear Spin Relaxation in Cs Metal (1966) (7)
Magnetic Resonance Line Shapes at the Onset of Saturation (1958) (6)
The semiconductor-to-metal transition in n-type silicon (1968) (5)
Modern physics concepts taught via a neutron activation analysis laboratory (1996) (5)
Low-Temperature Paramagnetic Relaxation of Color Centers in KCl (1962) (5)
Energy Transfer within a Spin System (1961) (4)
LED’s: Their charm and pitfalls (1997) (4)
New Approaches to Introductory Physics (1987) (3)
Nuclear Spin Relaxation in Cs and Rb Metals below 77°K (1967) (3)
Role of percolation in determining critical composition for the M‐I transition in transition metal oxides (1999) (2)
The Metal-Insulator Transition in Compensated Silicon (1987) (1)
Apparatus for LED measurement of Planck's constant (1997) (1)
Laboratory exercises for an introductory physics course: Putting the experiment back in the lab (1993) (1)
Answer to Question #59. The peculiar properties of water (1998) (1)
More light on coherent backscattering (1996) (1)
The 29Si knight shift in Si:P and Si:P,B in the vicinity of the metal-insulator transition (1990) (1)
RESEARCH ON SOFT X-RAY ABSORPTION. (1965) (0)
Bethe still at Cornell (1973) (0)
Guest Comment: Filters for choosing new topics for the introductory physics course (1993) (0)
Don't Alter Courses for Women, Minorities (1994) (0)
ELECTRON-NUCLEUS MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS IN Cs METAL (1965) (0)
American Association of Physics Teachers 1989 Oersted Medalist: Anthony P. French (1989) (0)
Correspondence: The Best and Brightest (1990) (0)
The Undergraduate Physics and Materials Science Connection (1990) (0)
The insulator-metal transition in heavily-doped Si and Ge (1970) (0)
Kenneth Ingvard Greisen (2007) (0)
Meet your new AAPT President: Judy Franz (1990) (0)
Should I pay attention to the output from physics education R&D? (2001) (0)
The physics four-year degree as passport to the workplace (2008) (0)
Role of percolation in determining critical composition for the M‐I transition in transition metal oxides (1999) (0)
SATURATION AND DOUBLE-FREQUENCY IRRADIATION STUDIES OF THE TWO-PROTON SYSTEM IN CaSO$sub 4$/center dot/2H$sub 2$O. Technical Report No. 4 (1959) (0)
Teachers are not like that (1968) (0)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Alkali-Metals (1954) (0)
BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: Preliminary Reviews: My Father's Watch (1974) (0)
The Corson Symposium: Lectures (2009) (0)
Magnetic Properties of Conduction Electrons in Metallic Si:P and Si:B (1974) (0)
SATURATION AND DOUBLE-FREQUENCY IRRADIATION STUDIES OF THE TWO-PROTON SYSTEM IN CASO4.2H2O (1959) (0)
The introductory physics course—Can we improve it? (1990) (0)
A call for changes in undergraduate physics education (2008) (0)
Imprisoned Argentine Scientist (1977) (0)
My Father's Watch: Aspects of the Physical World (1974) (0)
‘‘Beyond F=ma,’’ Donald F. Holcomb’s acceptance speech for the 1996 Oersted Medal presented by the American Association of Physics Teachers, 16 January 1996 (1996) (0)

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