Career
He was a recipient of Davisson Germer Prize and Medard West. Welch Award.with British scientists. During this meeting Pearce (who wrote Science fiction stories) arranged a meeting with H. G. Wells, an internationally known science fiction writer Pearce and Hagstrum also met with Rudy Kompfner during this trip.
Since 1946 Homer specialized in Surface Physics which was an unknown sub-field of physics at that time.
In 1954 Homer Hagstrum was appointed head of the Surface Physics Research Department until 1978 when he returned to his former position. He developed a metal mulripurpose vacuum chamber in 1961 that is a model for many surface physics scientists today.
