Pugh, Emerson M.

Physicist (solid state physics). On physics faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1920-1965, acting head of department, 1940-1942; consultant, Westinghouse Atomic Power, 1956-1961.

Emerson Martindale Pugh (1896-1981) was a physicist (solid state physics). B.S., Carnegie Institute of Techology, 1918; M.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1927; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1930. On the physics faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology (1920-1965), and acting head of department (1940-1942); consultant, Westinghouse Atomic Power (1956-1961). Research in ballistics, the Hall effect, and ferro-magnetism.

Emerson M. Pugh (1896-1981) was a physicist and professor of Physics who taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1930, retiring in 1965. He specialized in solid state physics and in the physical properties of ferro-magnetic materials particularly the Hall Effect. His wartime research involved lined cavity charges, as related to explosives weapons such as the bazooka. He worked on several ordnance research projects for the War Department during World War II and later was a consultant to U.S. Army Ballistic Research Labs at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. He published "Electricity and Magnetism" (1960), "The Analysis of Physical Measurement" (1966) as well as an autobiography "Wyoming Scientist, Horses to Spaceships: Memoirs" (1979) which describes his boyhood in Evanston, Wyoming as his roots. Pugh was a Fellow of the American Physical Society.