Merle Anthony Tuve

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Merle Antony Tuve
Tuve in 1966
Born(1901-06-27)June 27, 1901
Canton, South Dakota, U.S.
DiedMay 20, 1982(1982-05-20) (aged 80)[1]
Bethesda, Maryland
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (1942-1946)
Carnegie Institution for Science (1946-66)

Merle Antony Tuve (June 27, 1901 – May 20, 1982) was an American geophysicist who was the Chairman of Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Section T, created in August 1940.[2] He was founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the main laboratory of Section T from 1942 on during World War II.[3] He pioneered the use of pulsed radio waves whose discovery opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear energy.[4]

Background

Merle Antony Tuve was born in Canton, South Dakota.[5]

Career

He led in the development of the proximity fuze first at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and then later at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and also made contributions to experimental seismology, radio astronomy, and optical astronomy.[6][7]

Personal life

Honors

Tuve was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1943.[8] For his service to the nation during World War II, Tuve received the Presidential Medal for Merit from President Harry S. Truman and was named an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1948. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950.[9] Mount Tuve in Ellsworth Land in Antarctica was named in honor of Merle Antony Tuve. The Library of Congress holds his papers in more than 400 archival boxes.[10]

Awards

Selected works

References

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  1. Associated Press (May 21, 1982). "Physicist Tuve, Inventor, Dies". Tri-City Herald. p. 24.
  2. Holmes, Jamie (2020). 12 Seconds of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-328-46012-7.
  3. Baxter, James Phinney (1968). Scientists Against Time. M.I.T. Press. p. 230.
  4. Norwegian American Scientist (National Academy of Sciences)
  5. Sirvaitis, Karen (1 September 2001). South Dakota. Lerner Publications. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-8225-4070-0.
  6. "Merle Tuve". NNDB. Soylent Communications. 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
  7. Cornell, Thomas D. (1988). "Merle Antony Tuve: Pioneer Nuclear Physicist". Physics Today. 41 (1). AIP Publishing: 57–64. Bibcode:1988PhT....41a..57C. doi:10.1063/1.881153. ISSN 0031-9228.
  8. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  9. "Merle Antony Tuve". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  10. Merle Antony Tuve, Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress (The Library of Congress)
  11. Breit, G.; Tuve, M. A. (1926-09-01). "A Test of the Existence of the Conducting Layer". Physical Review. 28 (3). American Physical Society (APS): 554–575. Bibcode:1926PhRv...28..554B. doi:10.1103/physrev.28.554. ISSN 0031-899X.
  12. "The Beginnings of Radio Astronomy". The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
  13. Biographical Memoirs V.70 (1996) (National Academy of Sciences)
  14. "Milestones". Time. May 31, 1982. Archived from the original on 15 October 2010. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
  15. "Merle Antony Tuve". Archived from the original on 2008-09-07. Retrieved 2008-04-26.

Further reading

  • Tuve, George Lewis The Tuve-Tuff-Tew brothers: Five Norwegian immigrants and their families (Tuve. 1977)
  • Evans, Margaret Rosemond Tuve. A Life of The Mind (Peter E. Randall Publisher. 2004)
  • Kellermann, Kenneth I.; Bouton, Ellen N.; Brandt, Sierra S. (2020). "A New Era in Radio Astronomy". Open Skies: The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Its Impact on US Radio Astronomy. Springer International Publishing. pp. 77–156. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32345-5_3. ISBN 978-3-030-32345-5.