Background
McDaniel, Boyce Dawkins was born on June 11, 1917 in Brevard, North Carolina, United States. Son of Allen Webster and Grace (Dawkins) McDaniel.
McDaniel, Boyce Dawkins was born on June 11, 1917 in Brevard, North Carolina, United States. Son of Allen Webster and Grace (Dawkins) McDaniel.
Bachelor of Science, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1938. Master of Science, Case Institute of Technology, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1943.
Staff member radiation laboratory, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1943; physicist, Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1943-1946; member of faculty, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1945; professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1956-1987; associate director laboratory nuclear studies, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1960-1967; director laboratory nuclear studies, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1967-1985; Floyd R. Newman professor nuclear studies, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1977-1987; professor emeritus, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1987. Head accelerator section National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, 1972. Member high energy physics advisory panel Energy Research and Development Administration, 1975-1978.
Trustee Associated Universities, Inc., 1962-1975. Fellow American Physical Society. Member National Academy of Sciences, Universities Research Association (trustee 1971-1977, 83-84, chairman superconducting super-collider board overseers 1984-1991, member 1991-1993).
Married Jane Chapman Grennell, August 3, 1941. Children: Gail P., James G.