Ph.D. in Physics
1967 - 1968

Fall Quarter 1967

Arthur Jared Crandall
Thesis: "Measurement of the Velocity of Sound in Water by Optical Methods"
Advisor: Egon A. Hiedemann
M. S., Physics - 1964 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1961 - St. Lawrence University

David V. Grillot
Thesis: "Reaction Matrices for Finite Nuclei"
Advisor: Hugh McManus
M. S., Physics - 1962 - Ohio University
B. S., Physics - 1959 - Ohio University

Donald Bruce Keck
Thesis: "High Resolution Absorption, Zeeman and Magnetic Rotation Spectra of the Fundamental and Satellite Bands of Nitric Oxide in the Near Infrared"
Advisor: C. Duane Hause
M. S., Physics - 1964 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1962 - Michigan State University

Andrew Rostyslaw Melnyk
Thesis: "The Interaction of Electromagnetic Radiation with a Bounded Plasma"
Advisor: Michael J. Harrison
M. S., Physics - 1963 - Michigan State University
A. B., Physics - 1961 - St. Mary's College

Paul Elmer Petersen
Thesis: "Theoretical Investigation of the Conduction Band Carrier Density in InSb Under Carrier Multiplication Conditions"
Advisor: Truman O. Woodruff
M. S., Physics - 1961 - University of Iowa
B. S., Physics - 1955 - Iowa State University

Vincent Alan Rowe
Thesis: "Phonon Drag Thermopower in Cadmium, Zinc and Magnesium"
Advisor: Peter Schroeder
M. S., Physics - 1965 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1963 - Marquette University

John Bos Van Zytveld
Thesis: "The Effects of Sample Size, Magnetic Field and Temperature on the Electrical Resistivity and Thermopower of Aluminum"
Advisor: Jack Bass
M. S., Physics - 1964 - Michigan State University
A. B., Physics - 1962 - Calvin College

Winter Quarter 1968

Spring Quarter 1968

John Charles Abele
Thesis: "Fermi Surface Studies of Aluminum and Dilute Aluminum-Magnesium Alloys Using the Magnetothermal Oscillation Technique"
Advisor: Frank J. Blatt
M. S., Physics - 1965 - Michigan State University
B. A., Physics - 1963 - Willamette University

Howard Eugene Petterson
Thesis: "The Strain-Optical Constants of Some Sodium Halides"
Advisor: Egon A. Hiedemann
M. A., Physics - 1947 - University of Minnesota
A. B., Physics - 1943 - Whitman College

Harry Joseph Trodahl
Thesis: "Quantum Oscillations in the Peltier Effect in Zinc"
Advisor: Frank J. Blatt
M. S., Physics - 1965 - Michigan State University
A. B., Physics - 1963 - Moravian College

Summer Quarter 1968

James Nathaniel McElearney
Thesis: "Low Temperature Adiabatic Studies of Magnetic Phase Boundaries in Antiferromagnets"
Advisor: Harold Forstat
M. S., Physics - 1964 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1962 - Stanford University

James Lewis Snelgrove
Thesis: "Energy Dependence and Spectroscopy in the 16O(p,d)15O and 15N(p,d)14N Reactions"
Advisor: Edwin Kashy
M. S., Physics - 1966 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1964 - Tennessee Polytechnic Institute