Colby, Walter F. (Walter Francis), 1880-
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Professor of physics at the University of Michigan.
Walter F. Colby was a professor of physics at the University of Michigan. He was born in Rockford, Michigan in 1880, and attended high school in Muskegon. He earned his bachelor of arts degree at the University of Michigan in 1901 and the doctor of philosophy degree in 1909. He has also studied abroad, at the University of Vienna, Tuebingen, Munich, and Hamburg, and at the Behr Institute, in Copenhagen.
In 1906, Colby was appointed an assistant in the department of physics of the University of Michigan. He became full professor in 1919. During World War II, Colby participated in an army intelligence mission to Paris and Germany. In 1947 he was awarded the Medal of Freedom in recognition of this service.
In 1929 Professor Colby married Martha Guernsey, associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. He died in 1980.
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