Ernest C. Pollard was born in Yunnan, China, on April 16, 1906. His undergraduate and postgraduate education was at Cambridge University where he received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics in 1932. Pollard began his research and teaching career in nuclear physics and, along with Ernest Rutherford and James Chadwick at Cambridge, made some of the first determinations of the radius of the nucleus. He joined the faculty of the Physics Department at Yale University in 1933 where he established and became the chairman of their Biophysics Department. He came to Pennsylvania State University in 1960 to chair the newly established Biophysics Department. He authored textbooks on microwave radiation, nuclear physics, and physics for non-scientists, physics of viruses and molecular biophysics as well as more than 200 scientific articles on nuclear physics and radiation biophysics. The Ernest C. Pollard Professorship in Biotechnology at Penn State was established in 1990. Professor Pollard died on February 24, 1997 at the age of 91.
From the description of Ernest C. Pollard papers, 1930-1985. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 475668269
