Dr. G. Allen Gary obtained his Ph. D. at University of Georgia in 1969 under Dr. Winfield J. Abbe . Gary worked on solar magnetic field measurements and theory with the National Aeronautic and Space Administration until retirement and then with the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Dr. Winfield J. Abbe obtained his Ph.D. at UC Riverside in physics in 1966 under Dr. Peter E. Kaus. Abbe worked on bootstrapping elementary particles and retired from physics mid-stream in his career.
Dr. Peter E. Kaus obtained his Ph.D. at UCLA in physics in 1954 under Dr. Robert Finkelstein. Kaus worked on theoretical high-energy physics and was president of the Aspen Center for Physics and Fulbright Scholar at the Neils Bohr Institute in Denmark.
Dr. Robert Finkelstein obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard in physics in 1941 under Dr. John H. van Vleck. Finkelstein work on quantum field theory and apply quantum groups to investigate deformations of quantum mechanics. Wrote a paper with Oppenheimer on Mesons decay.
Dr. John H. van Vleck obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard in physics in 1922 under Dr. Edwin C. Kemble. Van Vleck was a pioneer of quantum mechanics and its application to electric and magnetic phenomena. He was award the Nobel Prize for fundamental theoretical investigations of electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
Dr. Edwin C. Kemble obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard in physics in 1917 under Dr. Percy W. Bridgman . Kemble was first theoretical thesis in the US (on quantum mechanics) and introduced quantum mechanics into the Harvard curriculum. Paper: General Principles of Quantum Mechanics I., Rev. Mod. Phys. 1, 157 (1929). Major Book: Fundamental Principles of Quantum Mechanics", 1937.
Dr. Percy W. Bridgman obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard in physics in 1908 under the physics department staff. The following professors at Harvard approved Percy Bridgman's thesis: John Trowbridge, Wallace Sabine, G.W. Pierce,B.O. Peirce, H.W. Morse, H.N. Davis,and Theodore Lyman. Bidgman was the first Nobel Prize winner in physics from Harvard worked on high pressures and temperatures of materials and founder of the philosophical school of Operationalism. A quote of his is "The scientific method is nothing more than doing your damnedest, no holds barred".