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THE Frederick Ive Medal for distinguished work in optics has been awarded by the Optical Society of America to Dr. George R. Harrison, dean of science in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Harrison, who is fifty-one, was born in San Diego, Californiay-and graduated from Stanford University. After rising to become associate professor of physics at Stamord, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as professor of physics in 1930 and was appointed dean of the School of Science in 1942. As professor of physics, and during 1930–42 as director of the Research Laboratory of Physics at the Institute, Dr. Harrison has won wide recognition for his achievements in spectroscopy and studies of atomic structure, much of which was valuable in developments associated with the Second World War. He has made especially notable contributions in the fields of spectral line intensities, photometry and vacuum spectroscopy, and with his wide background of scientific research he is known as a leader in applying advances in modern physics to industrial development. Under his guidance the spectroscopy laboratory of the Institute has become an important centre of technological research and has produced tools of great value for investigations in modern physics. For his achievements in this field Dr. Harrison was in 1939 awarded the Rumford Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During the War he was chief of the Optics Division of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and later he became chief of the research section at General MacArthur's headquarters. In recognition of his services he was awarded the Medal of Freedom and thalPresidential Medal for Merit.
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Frederick Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America: Dr. G. R. Harrison. Nature 164, 518 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164518c0
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