Herbert Ackland Pohl

Background

Pohl, Herbert Ackland was born on February 17, 1916 in Lisbon, Portugal. Son of Lucien Charles and Emily May (Williams) Pohl. came to the United States, 1916.

Education

Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Duke, 1936; Doctor of Philosophy, Duke, 1939.

Career

Rockefeller fellow in anatomy Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1939. Carnegie Institution of Washington fellow, 1940. National Defense Research Committee fellow chemical engineering Johns Hopkins, 1941-1942.

Senior chemist Naval Research Laboratory, 1942-1945. Research associate E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company, 1945-1957. Senior research associate, lecturer plastics department School Engineering, Princeton, 1957-1962.

Visiting professor materials science Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn, 1962-1963. Visiting professor quantum chemistry group Uppsala University, Sweden, 1963-1964. Professor physics Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 1964-1986.

Regional director Oklahoma Cancer Research Laboratory, 1980-1981. President, director Pohl Cancer Research Laboratory Inc., 1982-1986. Visiting professor University California, Riverside, 1970, Cavendish Laboratory, University Cambridge, England, 1971.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization senior science fellow, 1971. Vice president Science-Technology Corporation, New York City.

Achievements

• Herbert Ackland Pohl has been listed as a noteworthy Chemist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Dielectrophoresis: The Behavior of Neutral Matter in Nonuniform Electric Fields (Cambridge Monographs on Physics)

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  • Dielectrophoresis: The Behavior of Neutral Matter in Nonuniform Electric Fields (Cambridge Monographs on Physics) by Herbert A. Pohl (1978-12-29)

Membership

President Princeton chapter United World Federalists, 1959-1961. Vice president Stillwater Unitarian Church, 1978-1979. Fellow American Institute Chemists, Explorers Club.

Member American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Physics Teachers, American Association of University Professors, American Chemical Society, Oklahoma Academy of Sciences (past chairman), Philosophical Society.

Connections

Married Eleanor Kathleen Rich, August 23, 1941. Children— Douglas, Patricia (Mistress Robert Langdon), Elaine (Mistress Gene Roy Oltmans), Charles, William.

Father:

Lucien Charles Pohl

Mother:

Emily May (Williams) Pohl

Spouse:

Eleanor Kathleen Rich

child:

Elaine Pohl (Mistress Gene Roy Oltmans)

child:

William Pohl

child:

Patricia Pohl (Mistress Robert Langdon)

child:

Charles Pohl

child:

Douglas Pohl