Biography:Edith Halbert
Edith Conrad Halbert | |
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| Born | April 23, 1931 New York City, NY |
| Died | December 31, 2023 (aged 92) Oak Ridge, TN |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse(s) | Melvyn Halbert (m. 1951) |
| Children | 3 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Thesis | A shell model for the even-parity states of N¹⁵ and general results for states of parity ( - )A̳¹ in the nuclei 5 ≤A ≤ 16 (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | James Bruce French |
Edith Conrad Halbert (23 April 1931 – 31 December 2023)[1] was an American physicist, elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972.[2] She worked on computations in the nuclear shell model at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Education
Halbert attended Cornell University,[3] where she was elected to Sigma Xi[4] and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1951.[5] She then went to the University of Rochester to pursue graduate studies in physics. At Rochester, she was the student of James Bruce French.[6] She earned a doctorate in 1957[7] with a PhD thesis entitled A Shell Model for the Even-Parity States of Nitrogen-15.[8]
Career
She worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,[9] where she directed the development of the Oak Ridge–Rochester Multi-Shell Program, a computer program used to compute the properties of atomic nuclei based on the nuclear shell model.[10] While at Oak Ridge, she also worked as a visiting scientist in the low energy nuclear theory group at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the nuclear theory group at Stony Brook University.[11]
Personal life
Halbert came from a Forest Hills, New York family. She married Melvyn Halbert of Jamaica, New York, also a Cornell and University of Rochester physics student[12][13] and later an Oak Ridge researcher.
Selected publications
- Zucker, A.; Howard, F. T.; Halbert, E. C., eds (1961). "Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Reactions Between Complex Nuclei, May 2–4, 1960, Gatlinburg, Tennessee". New York & London: John Wiley & Sons.[14][15]
- Halbert, E. C. (January 1964). "Optical-model analysis of elastic deuteron scattering" (in en). Nuclear Physics 50: 353–402. doi:10.1016/0029-5582(64)90216-0. Bibcode: 1964NucPh..50..353H.
- Austern, N.; Drisko, R. M.; Halbert, E. C.; Satchler, G. R. (1964-01-13). "Theory of finite-range distorted-waves calculations" (in en). Physical Review 133 (1B): B3–B16. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.133.B3. ISSN 0031-899X. Bibcode: 1964PhRv..133....3A.
- McGrory, J. B.; Wildenthal, B. H.; Halbert, E. C. (1970-07-01). "Shell-model structure of 42−50Ca" (in en). Physical Review C 2 (1): 186–212. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.2.186. ISSN 0556-2813. Bibcode: 1970PhRvC...2..186M.
- Ichimura, Munetake; Arima, Akito; Halbert, E. C.; Terasawa, Tokuo (April 1973). "Alpha-particle spectroscopic amplitudes and the SU(3) model" (in en). Nuclear Physics A 204 (2): 225–278. doi:10.1016/0375-9474(73)90272-8. Bibcode: 1973NuPhA.204..225I.
References
- ↑ "Edith Conrad Halbert". https://www.mottmckameyfh.com/obituaries/edith-halbert.
- ↑ "Fellows nominated in 1972 by the Division of Nuclear Physics" (in en). APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1972&unit_id=DNP&institution=.
- ↑ "The Cornell Daily Sun 30 October 1951". https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS19511030.1.3&.
- ↑ "Sigma Xi Elects". Cornell Alumni News 54 (1): 15. July 1951.
- ↑ "The Cornell Daily Sun 8 June 1951". https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19510608-01.2.44.
- ↑ Koltun, Daniel S. (September 2002). "James Bruce French" (in en). Physics Today 55 (9): 77–79. doi:10.1063/1.1522227. ISSN 0031-9228. Bibcode: 2002PhT....55i..77K.
- ↑ "Degrees Awarded at UR's Commencement". Democrat and Chronicle: pp. 16. 1957-06-10. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31206852/democrat-and-chronicle/.
- ↑ Halbert, Edith C. (1957). A Shell Model for the Even-Parity States of Nitrogen-15 (PhD thesis). University of Rochester. Bibcode:1957PhDT........21H.
- ↑ "We Hear That" (in en). Physics Today 17 (4): 98–100. April 1964. doi:10.1063/1.3051583. ISSN 0031-9228. Bibcode: 1964PhT....17d..98.. http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3051583.
- ↑ "Nuclear Physics Research: Little Things Mean a Lot". Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review 25 (3–4): 156–160. 1992. https://books.google.com/books?id=C3fFUYXzKdAC&pg=RA2-PA156.
- ↑ Obenshain, F. E. (May 1972). "Domestic assignments and leaves of absence". Physics Division Annual Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 1971. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. p. 180. doi:10.2172/4921301. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4921301.
- ↑ "Cross Sections, Department Of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Winter 2002". https://www.pas.rochester.edu/news-events/newsletter/cross-sections/csWinter02.pdf.
- ↑ "The Cornell Daily Sun 17 January 1951". https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS19510117-01.2.50&.
- ↑ "Books received". Science Progress 49 (195): 587–600. July 1961.
- ↑ Wigner, E. P. (2001). "Review of the Second Gatlinburg Conference on Reactions Between Complex Nuclei". in Mehra, Jagdish. Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 261–269. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-07791-7_40. ISBN 978-3-642-08180-4.
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