Background
Arthur Edward Ruark was born in Washington, District of Columbia, 9 November 1899 as the son of Oliver Miles and Margaret Gordon (Smith) Ruark.
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Arthur Ruark
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He graduated from Towson High School Baltimore, Maryland (U.S.) He received Bachelor of Arts cum laude at Johns Hopkins, 1921, Master of Arts in 1923, Doctor of Philosophy in 1924.
Career
And Shepherd University. He was assistant professor Physics at Yale from 1926-1927. He was physicist for Gulf Oil Companies, Mellon Institute from 1927-1929.
He was chief of physics division Gulf Research Laboratory in 1930.
He was professor of Physics University of Pittsburgh from 1930-1934. He was head of physics department at University of North.Carolina after 1934.
The graduate program of the University of Alabama was begun after World World War II under the leadership of Arthur Ruark. Afterwards, Ruark became head of the controlled fusion program at the Atomic Energy Commission.
Ruark left Alabama in 1956.
Arthur East. Ruark on 31 December. 1959 wrote "Material for the McKinney Report -Progress Towards Fusion-Power."
He is author of: Multiple Electron Transmissions and Primed Spectral Terms, 1925. Atoms, Molecules, and Quanta, 1930.
Atomic Physics (with others), 1933.
Also numerous articles on critical potentials, Spectroscopy, wave mechanics, indetermination principle, radio activity and nuclear physics.
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Membership
He was a member of Atomic Structure Section of the Bureau Of Standards, Washington, District of Columbia, from 1922-1926.
