Janice Button-Shafer

Background

Button-Shafer, Janice was born on September 13, 1931 in Cincinnati. Daughter of Charles Titsworth and Anita Blanche (Wolever) Button.

Education

Bachelor in Engineering Physics, Cornell Univercity, 1954; postgraduate, U. Goettingen, Federal Republic of Germany, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1959.

Career

Research physicist, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, 1959-1966; lecturer in physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1962-1966; associate professor physics, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1966-1970; professor physics, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1970. Visiting scientist Harvard University, 1979. Visiting professor University of California, Berkeley, 1992.

Achievements

• Janice Button-Shafer has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Participant peace and world security studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, U. Maryland. 1983-1989; member President' Council Cornell Women, since 1990. Fellow American Physical Society.

Member American Association Physics Teachers, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi.

Interests

• Avocation: piano chamber-music performances.

Connections

Married John Shafer; children: Christina Mae, Charles Frederick, John Christopher (twins).

Father:

Charles Titsworth Button

Mother:

Anita Blanche (Wolever) Button

Spouse:

John Shafer

child:

Charles Frederick Button-Shafer

child:

Christina Mae Button-Shafer

child:

John Christopher Button-Shafer (twins)