Conyers Herring

Conyers Herring
Herring in 1959
Born	William Conyers Herring (1914-11-15)November 15, 1914 Scotia, New York, U.S.
Died	July 23, 2009(2009-07-23) (aged 94) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Princeton University
Known for	Weyl semimetal Nabarro–Herring creep Holstein–Herring method
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1959) NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (1980) Wolf Prize (1984/5)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Bell Labs Stanford University
Thesis	On Energy Coincidences in the Theory of Brillouin Zones  (1937)
Doctoral advisor	Eugene Wigner

William Conyers Herring (November 15, 1914 – July 23, 2009) was an American physicist. He was a professor of applied physics at Stanford University and the Wolf Prize in Physics recipient in 1984/5.^[1]