William S. Verplanck papers 1916-1981
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William S. Verplanck was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on January 16, 1916. He earned his BS in 1937 and MS in 1938 from the University of Virginia. He received his PhD under Clarence Graham at Brown University in 1941. Verplanck spent the next four years conducting research on night vision at the Naval Medical Research Laboratory. He taught at Indiana University, Harvard, Stanford, Hunter College, and the University of Maryland, until he found his niche at the University of Tenne...