Alan Tower Waterman | |
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| 1st Director of the National Science Foundation | |
| In office 1951–1963 | |
| President | |
| Succeeded by | Leland J. Haworth |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 4, 1892 Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York |
| Died | November 30, 1967 (aged 75) Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | |
| Alma mater | Princeton |
| Awards | Public Welfare Medal (1960) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | U. of Cincinnati Yale Office of Scientific Research and Development Office of Naval Research NSF |
| Thesis | On the positive ionization from certain hot salts, together with some observations on the electrical properties of molybdenite at high temperatures (1916) |
| Doctoral advisor | Owen Willans Richardson |
Alan Tower Waterman (June 4, 1892 – November 30, 1967[1]) was an American physicist.
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