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\"American Scientist\" Francis W Loomis Signed FDC Dated 1963:
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Up for sale a VERY RARE! "American Scientist" Francis Wheeler Loomis Signed First Day Cover Dated 1963. 

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Francis Wheeler Loomis (August 4, 1889 –

February 9, 1976), born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, was an American scientist most widely known for his

contributions in the field of physics. Loomis received his undergraduate degree

and, in 1917, his PhD from Harvard University. His

thesis was mercury. Loomis was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1928 studying abroad at Zürich and

Göttingen. In 1929, Loomis came to the University

of Illinois at Urbana Champaign to become the head of the

Department of Physics, a position he would retain until 1957. Loomis was challenged in bringing top-notch

physics talent to a university in the rural Midwest. When approached by Loomis

to join his staff, Isidor Isaac Rabi stated bluntly "I love subways and

I hate cows."  While building

the department, Loomis attracted two-time Nobel recipient John Bardeen to join the staff, and had 1955 Nobel Prize

winner Polykarp Kusch as a

graduate student. Loomis was elected president of the American Physical Society and

a member of the National Academy of

Sciences in 1949.

In

World War I, Loomis served at the Aberdeen proving ground,

where he was an Army Ordnance captain. During World War II, he was the associate head

of the MIT Radiation Laboratory supporting

the national defense and served a two-year period as the organizer of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

The interruption of the war also required Loomis to restart his building of the

physics department as two-thirds of the faculty he added in the 1930s moved

elsewhere due to the many defense projects related to the war. Loomis founded the Control Systems Laboratory

as a research center for national defense purposes during the Korean War. After the war ended and the work done there became

unclassified, the facility was renamed the Coordinated Science Illinois at Urbana Champaign the main physics building was

renamed the Loomis Laboratory of Physics posthumously in his honor.

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"American Scientist" Francis W Loomis Signed FDC Dated 1963

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