Louis Byrne Slichter

Education

University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Career

Slichter Foreland peninsula in Antarctica is named after him. The Institute of Geophysics building in University of California, Los Angeles where he used to work as a director of the Institute has been named Slichter Hall. He was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

The New York Times called Slichter a "widely honored pioneer in the earth sciences".

The National Academy of Sciences called him "one of the foremost geophysicists of the twentieth century, an outstanding leader, scholar, and teacher". University of California, Los Angeles called him "the world leader in the analysis of the solid earth tides".

His sister-in-law was biochemist Mary Van Rensselaer Buell. May 19, 1896 born in Madison, Wisconsin

1917: Bachelor, University of Wisconsin–Madison

1920: Department of Administration and Management, University of Wisconsin–Madison

1922: Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison

1932–1945: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Geophysics

1944: elected to the National Academy of Sciences

1945–1947: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Professor of Geophysics

1946 Presidential Certificate of Merit (1946)

1946 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

1947 Director of the Institute of Geophysics, Professor of Geophysics, University of California, Los Angeles

1959 an honorary life membership in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists

1960 the Jackling Award of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers

1960 the chair of Geophysics Section at the National Academy of Sciences

1963-1978 Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

1966 Dedication of Slichter Hall at University of California, Los Angeles

1967 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Wisconsin

1966 the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union

1969 Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of California, Los Angeles

March 25, 1978 dies Los Angeles Medical Center at University of California, Los Los Angeles

Membership

National Academy of Sciences]

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the chair of the Academy"s Geophysics Section.

Connections

Father:

Charles Sumner Slichter

Mother:

Mary Louise (Byrne) Slichter

Spouse:

Martha Merry Buell

child:

Susan Merry Slichter

child:

Mary Louise Slichter (Mistress Ward Whaling)