Ph.D. in Physics
1968 - 1969
Fall Quarter 1968
Robert Joseph Heck
Thesis: "Polaron Effects on the Optical Properties of Semiconductors"
Advisor: Truman O. Woodruff
M. S., Physics - 1965 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1962 - University of Detroit
John Oscar Kopf
Thesis: "Janus: A Realtime Timesharing Computer System for Use in
Nuclear Physics Experiment"
Advisor: Aaron Galonsky
M. A., Physics - 1962 - University of Connecticut
B. A., Physics - 1960 - University of Connecticut
Joseph Thomas Longo
Thesis: "The High-Field Galvanomagnetic Properties of
AuAl2, AuGa2 and AuIn2"
Advisor: Peter A. Schroeder
M. S., Physics - 1966 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1964 - University of Detroit
Winter Quarter 1969
James John Kolata
Thesis: "Proton Spin Flip in the Reaction 12C(p, p') 12C* [4.44]
and 120Sn(p, p') 120Sn* [1.17]"
Advisor: Aaron Galonsky
M. S., Physics - 1966 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1964 - Marquette University
Michael Stephen Sher
Thesis: "S- and P-Wave Effective Range Parameters for the
Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction"
Advisor: Peter S. Signell
M. S., Physics - 1964 - University of Missouri
B. A., Physics - 1962 - Washington University
Krishna Kumari Yallibandi
Thesis: "Crystallographic Symmetry of the Magnetically Ordered State"
Advisor: Paul M. Parker and Robert D. Spence
M. Sc., Mathematics and Physics - 1958 - AndhraUniversity
B. Sc., Mathematics - 1957 - AndhraUniversity
B. Sc., Mathematics - 1955 - Arts College
Spring Quarter 1969
Ronald Joseph Gripsover
Thesis: "A Study of Vacancies in Tungsten Quenced in
Superfluid Helium"
Advisor: Jack Bass
M. S., Physics - 1965 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1963 - Villa Madonna College
William Frederick Long
Thesis: "Chiral Dynamics Calculations of Single Pion Production
in Pion-Nucleon Inelastic Scattering"
Advisor: Julius S. Kovacs
M. S., Physics - 1964 - Michigan State University
B. A., Physics - 1963 - William Jewell College
Donald Anthony Slanina
Thesis: "The Optical Potential in Proton-Nucleus Scattering"
Advisor: Hugh McManus
B. A., Physics - 1960 - St. Mary's College
Kenneth Marvin Thompson
Thesis: "Inelastic Proton Scattering at 40 MeV from the Even
Nickel Isotopes"
Advisor: Charles R. Gruhn
M. S., Physics - 1965 - Michigan State University
B. A., Physics - 1963 - North Central College, Naperville, IL
Glenn Thomas Williamson
Thesis: "A Study of the Production and Decay of Resonant States in Peripheral High
Energy Collisions"
Advisor: Hugh McManus
M. S., Physics - 1967 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1963 - Michigan State University
Summer Quarter 1969
Lamar Eugene Bullock
Thesis: "Simultaneous Analysis of the First Positive Band System of N2
in the Near Infrared Excited by a Hollow Cathode Discharge"
Advisor: C. Duane Hause
M. A., Physics - 1962 - Western Michigan University
B. S., Physics - 1960 - Western Michigan University
Hans Rudolph Fankhauser
Thesis: "Part I: Effect of Phonon and Electron-Electron Induced
Interband Transitions on the Thermopower of the Transition Metals. Part II:
Lattice Dynamics of Crystals with Molecular Impurity Centers"
Advisor: Frank J. Blatt
Diplom., Physics - 1964 - ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Peter Lee Willson
Thesis: "Electric Field Induced Spectra of Linear and Axially Symmetric Molecules"
Advisor: T. Harvey Edwards
M. S., Physics - 1966 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1964 - Eastern Illinois University
Gary Lee Wismer
Diploma of Advanced Graduate Study
M. S., Physics - 1966 - Michigan State University
B. S., Physics - 1965 - University of Detroit