Background
Plass, Gilbert Norman was born on March 22, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Son of Norman and Annette (Sunier) Plass.
Plass, Gilbert Norman was born on March 22, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Son of Norman and Annette (Sunier) Plass.
Bachelor of Science summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1947.
Associate physicist Metallurgical Laboratory, University Chicago, 1942-1945. Assistant professor Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1946-1954, associate professor, 1954-1955. Manager theoretical physics, research fellow Aeronutronic, Ford Motor Company, Newport Beach, California, 1955-1963.
Professor Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, Dallas, 1963-1968. Professor chairman department physics Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, College Station, from 1968. Visiting professor Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1947, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1954-1955.
Fellow American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Meteorological Society. Member American Geophysical Union, American Astronomical Society, American Association Physics Teachers.
Married Thyra Nichols Pliske, October 6, 1962. Children: Gordon Marc, Lucie Susan.