Background
Hoy, Gilbert R. was born on June 17, 1932 in Cleveland. Son of George Hansen and Esther (Plum) Hoy.
Hoy, Gilbert R. was born on June 17, 1932 in Cleveland. Son of George Hansen and Esther (Plum) Hoy.
Bachelor of Science in General Engineering, Davis and Elkins College, 1954. Master of Science in Physics, Cornell Univercity, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Carnegie Institute Technology, 1963.
Instructor Evening College Rochester Institute Technology, 1962-1963. Scientist Xerox Corporation, Solid State Research Department, 1962-1963. Research associate Carnegie Institute Technology, Pittsburgh, 1963-1965.
Assistant professor department physics Boston University, 1965-1969, associate.prof., 1969-1973, professor, 1973-1980, acting department chairman physics, 1979-1980;scientist Centre d"Etudes Nucleaires de Grenoble (France), 1976-1977.
Department chairman physics Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, since 1980. North Atlantic Treaty Organization Conference grantee, 1966.
Recipient Oak Ridge research participant award, summer 1968. Invited lecturer Magnetism Conference, Chania, Crete, Greece, 1969.
Honorary research associate Harvard University, 1972.
Invited chairman Mossbauer Frulingsschule, Germany, 1975. Invited chairman International Conference Mossbauer Spectroscopy, Portoroz, Yugoslavia, 1979. Consultant U. Alexandria, Egypt, 1979, National Institutes of Health, 1979-1981, Institute for Defense Analyses, since 1985.
Collaborator Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1986.
National Institutes of Health grantee 1982-1983. National Science Foundation grantee, 73-76, 1977-1980.
United States Atomic Energy Commission grantee, 1968-1972, Strategic Defense Initiative, 1986.
Member American Physical Society, Sigma Xi.
Married Chobee Agnes Kyle (divorced). Married second, Gloria Jeannette Viale. Children: Gilbert Junior.