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Centennial Lectureship in Physics  Emmett L. Hudspeth 1916-2000 Born in 1916 in Denton, Texas, Emmett Leroy Hudspeth attended Rice University and earned his Ph. D. degree in 1940. He was a Fellow and later the Assistant Director of the Bartol Research Foundation and a staff member of the MIT Radiation Laboratory. In 1950 he joined the Physics Department at the University of Texas and served for many years as Director of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory. He was Chairman of the Department and Graduate Advisor, and he supervised nearly thirty dissertations in nuclear physics and medical physics. Dr. Hudspeth was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He had broad business experience and was the founder of two Austin-area corporations. Published extensively in the field of experimental nuclear physics, Dr. Hudspeth was best known for his pioneering research on the energy levels and properties of light nuclei. The Emmett L. Hudspeth Centennial Lectureship in Physics is supported by an endowment donated by friends and associates of Emmett L. Hudspeth and matched by the endowed Teachers and Scholars Program.
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