Physics, workshop, circa 1975, photo 2
 

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The reference to this photo in the first three lines is incorrect. The person in the photo is Andrew Jackson. He was a workstudy student in the Physics Department. He is cutting a piece of wood in the Physics Department Wood Shop. Later he was employed by the Department as the Director of Phsics Laboratories. He obtained his bachelors degree in Physics and a masters in Mathematics from Appalachian and a doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Wake Forest University. He is deceased.

 

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Title

Physics, workshop, circa 1975, photo 2

Description

This image shows Professor Gordon Lindsay of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) cutting a piece of wood in the workshop in Kerr Scott Hall, built 1961, in the 1970s. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is in the College of Arts and Sciences and maintains the Rankin Science Observatory in Rankin Science Hall, built 1963, and the Dark Sky Observatory, opened 1981, twenty miles northeast of Boone, NC. The Department offers an undergraduate degrees in applied physics and graduate degrees in engineering physics, as well as courses in industrial, chemical, computational, environmental, medical, and radiation safety physics.

Subject

Faculty
Physics
Appalachian State University

Source

General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 14, Physics and Astronomy F2, C14.2.3.2.

Publisher

University Archives, Appalachian State University

Format

JPEG
Photographs

Language

English

Type

Image

Corporate Names

Appalachian State University. College of Arts and Sciences. Department of Physics and Astronomy

Place Names

Kerr Scott Hall (1961)

Date Range

1970-1979

Series

Series 6 -- Colleges, Departments, Offices, and Centers

File name

3378_2004_040_A.jpg

Sponsors

The Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Digitization Project is supported with federal Library Service and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources through the North Carolina ECHO, 'Exploring Cultural Heritage Online' Digitization Grant Program.

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