Autobiography, ca. 1945.

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Autobiography, ca. 1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82744120

The document covers Loughridge's education at Throop Polytechnic Institute (later California Institute of Technology) where Robert Millikan was his advisor, cloud chamber research, industrial work, research at University of Washington, World War II work at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, further post-war research at the University of Washington in cosmic rays, his tenure as chief scientist with the Department of the Army, as dean of Engineering at Northwestern University, as counselor for the State of California, and a discussion of the need for individual research.

6 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Physicist (photoelectricity, ions) and educator. On the physics faculty at the University of Chicago, 1896-1921; on the faculty at California Institute of Technology: director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and chairman of the Executive Council, 1921-1946, emeritus professor of physics and chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1946; Nobel Prize in physics, 1923. From the description of Papers [microform], 1847-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77594601 Millikan was...

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United States. Department of the Army

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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...

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