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4. William Vermillion Houston
4. William Vermillion Houston
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Aurorite, argentian todorokite, and hydrous silverbearing lead manganese oxide.
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His father was a Presbyterian minister, and he was brought up in an atmosphere that encouraged intellectual work. H.e attended elementary and secondary school in Columbus and obtained his baccalaureate degree in physics from The Ohio State University.
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Cole. Houston now went to the California Institute of Technology on a National Research Fellowship, largely because of Millikan, who had left Chicago for Caltech in 1922.
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He made many other contributions to solid-state theory, among which were a treatment of the T5 law for resistance at low temperature, a study of the surface photoeffect, and the first suggestion and analysis of the use of soft x rays to study the energy band structure of solids. For many years at Caltech and later at Rice, Houston taught an introductory course on mathematical physics which was extremely effective and popular, not only among physics students but also with the more theoretically inclined chem
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Jewett of the National Academy of Sciences persuaded Houston to enter undersea warfare work, not only because of his experience in physics but also because of his ability to stimulate others in the development of new ideas. Houston received the Medal of Merit ribbon, presented to him by the Secretary of the Navy for directing the building of the first homing missile and for supervising many of the scientific studies designed to improve the effectiveness of various BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS weapons.
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Besides the fellowship of the Guggenheim Foundation for travel and study in Europe in 1927-1928, from 1925 to 1927 he held a National Research Council Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1943, and he served the Academy faithfully on important committees and on the Council (1959-1962)
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Rice University awarded him a medal of honor during its fiftieth anniversary celebration in 1962, and the Rice Alumni Association presented a Gold Medal Distinguished Service Award to him in 1967. Houston was a serene man, never angry, good-natured, a man of dry, understated humor, and he made himself felt as a continuing influence for all that was kind and good in human relationships.
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Physik Zeitschrift fur Physik 1926 Fine structure and the wave lengths of the Balmer lines. Astrophysical Journal, 44:81-92.
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1935 The determination of e/m from the Zeeman effect. Zeeman Verhandelingen.
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Scientific Monthly, 50:276-78. 1941 Electron theory of thermoelectric effects.
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