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Conyers Herring
William Conyers Herring (November 15, 1914 – July 23, 2009) was an American physicist. He was Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University and the Wolf Prize in Physics recipient in 1984/5.
Academic career.
Conyers Herring completed his Ph.D in Physics from Princeton University in 1937, submitting a dissertation entitled "On Energy Coincidences in the Theory of Brillouin Zones" under the direction of Eugene Wigner. In 1946, he joined the technical staff of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey
to the fundamental theory of solids, especially of the behaviour of electrons in metals". In 1980 he was awarded the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences.
See also.
- Holstein–Herring method
External links.
- Profile of Conyers Herring
- The contributions of Conyers Herring
- Oral History interview transcript with Conyers Herring 5 August 2000, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- Oral History interview transcript with Conyers Herring 23 July 1974, American Institute