William M. Fairbank

William Martin Fairbank (24 February 1917 in Minneapolis – 30 September 1989 in Palo Alto) was an American physicist known in particular for his work on liquid helium.[1]

Fairbank obtained his A. B. degree from Whitman College (1939) and his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University (1948) under the supervision of C. T. Lane.[2] He then went on to a productive academic career.[3][4]

Legacy

Fairbank had, at Duke, 7 doctoral students and, at Stanford, 47 doctoral students, including Blas Cabrera, Bascom S. Deaver, and Arthur F. Hebard. His three sons are: William M. Fairbank Jr. (a physicist and Fellow of the APS),[5] Robert Harold Fairbank (an antitrust, business, consumer and IP lawyer in Los Angeles), and Richard Dana Fairbank (founder and CEO of Capital One).

Awards

References

  1. Cabrera, Blas; Everitt, C. W. F.; Deaver Jr., Bascom S. (February 1991). "Obituary. William M. Fairbank". Physics Today 44 (2): 112–113. Bibcode:1991PhT....44b.112C. doi:10.1063/1.2810005.
  2. APS - 2006 APS March Meeting - Event - Low Temperature Physics at Yale in the late 30's through the early 50's The low temperature program at Yale was initiated by Cecil Taverner Lane (1904–1991) in 1937.
  3. http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?fairbankw APS Biography
  4. http://www.phy.duke.edu/william-m-fairbank Duke University Biography
  5. Wiiliam M. Fairbank Jr. | Physics, Colorado State University website

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