Background
Gove, Harry Edmund was born on May 22, 1922 in Niagara Falls, Canada. Son of Harry Golden and Lucia (Olmsted) Gove. came to the United States, 1963, naturalized, 1969.
Gove, Harry Edmund was born on May 22, 1922 in Niagara Falls, Canada. Son of Harry Golden and Lucia (Olmsted) Gove. came to the United States, 1963, naturalized, 1969.
Bachelor of Science, Queen's U., Kingston, Ontario, 1944; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950.
Research assistant, National Research Council, Chalk River, Canada, 1945-1946;
Research assistant, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1946-1950;
research associate, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1950-1952;
associate research officer, Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., Chalk River, 1952-1959;
branch head nuclear physics, Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., 1956-1963;
senior research officer, Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., 1959-1963;
on leave with, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, 1961-1962;
professor physics, U. Rochester, since 1963;
director nuclear structure research laboratories, U. Rochester, 1963-1988;
department chairman physics and astronomy, U. Rochester, 1977-1980. On leave with Laboratory de Physique Nucléaire et d'Instrumentation Nucléaire, C.R.N., Strasbourg, 1971-1972. Visiting professor Worcester College, Oxford, 1983-1984.
Member visiting committee Massachusetts Institute Technology Laboratory Nuclear Research, 1966-1968, Argonne National Laboratory physics division, 1966-1969, Queen's U. College Engineering, 1968-1970. Member of advisory committee physics division National Science Foundation, 1969-1971. Member grant selection committee nuclear physics National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, 1979-1981.
Member ad hoc panel on meson factories Office Science and Technology, 1963. Member selection panel National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows, 1967,69, 70. Member visiting committee physics and accelerator departments Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1979-1983.
Member of national heavy-ion laboratory policy committee Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1975-1976. Chairman panel on basic nuclear data compilations, National Research Council-National Academy Sciences. Member panel on future of nuclear science, 1975-1977.
Chairman visiting committee Cuclotron Laboratory U. Maryland., 1974-1979.
President Metro Act of Rochester, Inc., 1970-1971. Trustee Associated Universities, Inc., 1978-1983. Served from sublt. to Lieutenant Royal Canadian Navy, 1944-1945.
Fellow American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Canadian Association Physicists.
Married Elizabeth Alice dePencier, August 20, 1945. Children: Pauline Lucia, Diana Elizabeth.