biography
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Herring, (William) Conyers
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1914– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Scotia, New York, USA. He was a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1937–9), then taught at Princeton (1939–40) and the University of Missouri (1940–1). He performed war research at Columbia University (1941–5) before joining Bell Laboratories (1946–78). His work at Bell on spin wave theory was one of the first studies of collective excitations in metals, and his research during the 1940s and 1950s on transform phenomena in semiconductors was basic to present understanding of solid-state theory. During 1978–81 he was a professor at Stanford. |
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