Background
McMILLAN, Edwin Mattison was born on September 18, 1907 in Redondo Beach, California, United States. Son of Edwin Harbaugh and Anna Marie (nee Mattison) McMillan.
McMILLAN, Edwin Mattison was born on September 18, 1907 in Redondo Beach, California, United States. Son of Edwin Harbaugh and Anna Marie (nee Mattison) McMillan.
Bachelor of Science, California Institute of Technology, 1928. Master of Science, California Institute of Technology, 1929. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1932.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1961. Doctor of Science (honorary), Gustavus Adolphus College, 1963.
National research fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 1932-1934;
research associate, University of California at Berkeley, 1934-1935;
instructor in physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1935-1936;
assistant professor physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1936-1941;
associate professor, University of California at Berkeley, 1941-1946;
professor physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1946-1973;
emeritus, University of California at Berkeley, 1973-1991. Member of staff Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1934-1973, associate director, 1954-1958, director, 1958-1973. On leave for defense research at Massachusetts Institute Technology RadiationLab., United States Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory, San Diego, and Los Alamos Science.Lab., 1940-1945.
Member general advising committee Atomic Energy Commission, 1954-1958. Member of commission high energy physics International Union Pure and Applied Physics, 1960-1967. Member science policy committee Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1962-1966.
Member physics advising committee National Accelerator Laboratory, 1967-1969. Chairman 13th International Conference on High Energy Physics, 1966. Guest professor European Organization of Nuclear Research, Geneva, 1974.
Trustee Rand Corporation, 1959—1969. Universities Research Association, 1969—1974. Board directors San Francisco Palace Arts and Sciences Foundation, 1968—1991.
Fellow: American Physical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member: National Academy of Sciences (chairman class I 1968-1971), American Philosophical Society, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi.
Married Elsie Walford Blumer, June 7, 1941. Children— Ann B., David M., Stephen W.