Background
Mahan, Archie Irvin was born on September 1, 1909 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of A.E. and Harriett E. (Lockhart) Mahan.
Mahan, Archie Irvin was born on September 1, 1909 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of A.E. and Harriett E. (Lockhart) Mahan.
AB, Friends University, 1931. Student, University Kansas, 1932. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1940.
Instructor physics Georgetown University, 1939-1941. Physicist, division chief Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 1942-1956. Senior and principal physicist Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, from 1956.
Graduate school lecturer Georgetown University, 1955, 56. Special research physical and geometrical optics. Postdocotoral research program and review committee National Research Council.
Fellow American Physical Society, Optical Society of America (board directors, treasurer from 1962, associate editor journal. from 1955, Distinguished Service award 1979), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington Academy of Sciences. Member American Institute Physics (board directors from 1962, executive committee 1970), Washington Philosophical Society (president 1953).
Married Frances Ford Beck, April 7, 1941. 1 child, Archie Harvin. Married Lillie G. Mahan, 1980.