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California Professor Named Head Of KU Physics Department
A theoretical physicist now teaching at the University of California at Davis, will be the new chairman of the physics department, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced today.
Prof. David B. Beard, 41, brings special interests in theory, particularly in field theory, in space physics; and experience in nuclear research and in research leading toward the production of controlled thermonuclear power.
Beard replaces Prof. J. D. Stranathan who, after serving as chairman for the past 23 years, will retire from administrative duties to return to teaching.
"I FEEL fortunate in joining the fine physics faculty at the University of Kansas at a time when a large and exciting expansion of their physics program is being planned," Beard said.
"There will be many new opportunities in preparing a large, modern center of research and graduate training in physics which I am very happy to help create."
Beard earned his bachelor of science in chemistry at Hamilton College, New York, in 1943, did graduate study in physics in 1943-44 at the California Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1950 at Cornell University, where he did his dissertation on meson theory of nuclear forces under nuclear pioneer Hans Bethe and worked as a research assistant in nuclear theory under a prominent physicist and educator, Phillin Morrison.
Beard taught physics at Catholic University of America and the University of Connecticut until joining the University of California, Davis, in 1953, where he has taught and
Two Professors Given Danforth
Two faculty members have been appointed Danforth associates for the 1964-66 academic years.
Bruce A. Linton, professor of speech and journalism, and William J. York, associate professor of education, will participate with their wives in the program aimed at heightening the quality of faculty-student relations. Danforth Foundation of St. Louis is the sponsor.
The appointees and their wives will attend summer conferences at Camp Miniwanca, Mich., where they will be oriented in the objectives of the program.
Danforth associates work to establish closer relations with students through informal visits, often in their homes.
performed his research since, with the exception of a two-year period from 1956-58 when he served as a staff scientist for the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. at Palo Alto.
FROM 1954-57. Beard worked as a summer research associate with Edward Teller on Project Sherwood, the effort to achieve controlled thermonuclear power at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore. He was a summer research participant at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and held an NAS-NRC senior post-doctoral fellowship at Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, Md.
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He is a consultant for the Theoretical Division of the Goddard Space Flight Center, for the Physics Division of the Sandia Corp., and
for the Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
His research papers have been published in a variety of publications: Review of Scientific Instruments, American Scientist, Nucleonics Magazine, Journal of Nuclear Energy, Physics of Fluids, Journal of Geophysical Research, Astrophysical Journal, and Reviews of Geophysics.
Two 1963 articles indicate the scope of his research, "Interplanetary Magnetic Fields as a Cause of Comet Tails" with M. P. Nakada in Nature and "Quantitative Nuclear Evaporation Theory and the Nuclear Potential" with Alden McLellan in Physical Review.
He and his wife have four children, two sons, 16 and 13, and two daughters, 10 and 7.
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