Background
In 1908, Cary was born in Los Angeles, California and his mother’s name was listed as Brown.
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Howard Cary
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In 1925, after graduating from Los Angeles High School, Cary entered the and in 1930 graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery degree in civil engineering. The yearbook listed his attributes as mathematical and independent. In sports, he was captain of the varsity tennis squad and during his first year he won the junior travel prize.
Cary was a member of Sigma Xi.
Career
Before Applied Physics, Cary was employed by Beckman Instruments, where he worked on the design of several instruments including the ubiquitous DU spectrophotometer. Howard Cary was the first president of the Optical Society of Southern California. The 1940 United States Census listed Cary as married to Barbara Cary from Washington state.
His occupation was recorded as research engineer and industry as laboratory.
In 1991, Cary died of pneumonia after a long illness at Orange, California. Instrumentation Society of America, president Western Spectroscopy Association, executive committee American Physical Society, member American Chemical Society, member Institute of Radio Engineers, member Society for Applied Spectroscopy, member Double folded-z-configuration monochromator.
Achievements
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In 1958, Cary and Maurice Hasler were recipients of the distinguished Beckman Award in Chemical Instrumentation from the American Chemical Society. in 1969, Cary was awarded the David Richardson Medal by the Optical Society of America. Cary was honored for: "his painstakingly careful and very valuable contributions to the design and production of highly precise instrumentation in areas which range from spectroscopy to chemical, medical and nuclear research.".
Membership
Cary was a member of Sigma Xi.
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