physicist university professor
He was born Carl Bryce Seligman but he and his three brothers added "DeWitt" from their mother"s side of the family, at the urging of their father in 1950, after Bryce experienced anti-semitism as a "budding young scientist in Europe" (Seligman is a Jewish name. Ethnically Bryce is part Jewish).
Harvard University.
Twenty years later this change of name is rumored to have so angered Felix Bloch that he blocked DeWitt"s appointment to Stanford University and DeWitt instead moved to Austin, Texas. He served in World World War II as a naval aviator. He died September 23, 2004 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 81.
National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Letters.
