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By Jim Schooley, SAA History Committee.
Key facts
- Served 6 terms as a Member of the International Astronomical Union Commission on Standard Wavelengths and Spectral Tables, beginning in 1932
- Accordingly, in 1945 he followed a suggestion given by Jacob Wein and Luis Alvarez and obtained a sample of mercury 198 that was distilled from gold irradiated in the neutron flux of an Oak Ridge
- After his graduation with an A.B. degree in physics in 1910, he stayed another year as a graduate assistant to the chairman of the Ripon physics department, and then spent 1911-12 in graduate studies
- As Meggers struggled to help improve spectroscopic and spectrographic instrumentation, he continued with his university physics studies
Summary
Official websites use.gov A.gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Secure.gov websites use HTTPS A lock or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the.gov website. On June 12, 1914, William F. Meggers was born in 1888 to a farm family near Clintonville, Wisconsin, a rural community west of Green Bay. After his graduation with an A.B. degree in physics in 1910, he stayed another year as a graduate assistant to the chairman of the Ripon physics department, and then spent 1911-12 in graduate studies in the physics department of the University of Wisconsin. The Carnegie Institute of Technology awarded Meggers a position as instructor in physics in the fall of 1912.