Background
Devons, Samuel was born on September 30, 1914 in Bangor, N.Wales, United Kingdom. Son of David Isaac and Edith (Edlestein) Devons. came to the United States, 1959.
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In preparing the program for this Conference, the third in the series, it soon became evident that it was not possible to in clude in a conference of reasonable duration all the topics that might be subsumed under the broad title, "High Energy Physics and Nuclear Structure. " From their initiation, in 1963, it has been as much the aim of these Conferences to provide some bridges between the steadily separating domains of particle and nuclear physics, as to explore thoroughly the borderline territory between the two - the sort of no-man's-land that lies unclaimed, or claimed by both sides. The past few years have witnessed the rapid development of many new routes connecting the two major areas of 'elementary par ticles' and 'nuclear structure', and these now spread over a great expanse of physics, logically perhaps including the whole of both subjects. (As recently as 1954, an International Conference on 'Nuclear and Meson Physics' did, in fact, embrace both fields!) Since it is not now possible to traverse, in one Conference, this whole network of connections, still less to explore the entire ter ritory it covers, the choice of topics has to be in some degree arbitrary. It is hoped that ours has served the purpose of fairly exemplifying many areas where physicists, normally separated by their diverse interests, can find interesting and important topics which bring them together.
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Devons, Samuel was born on September 30, 1914 in Bangor, N.Wales, United Kingdom. Son of David Isaac and Edith (Edlestein) Devons. came to the United States, 1959.
Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College, Cambridge (England) University, 1935; Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy (Exhibition 1851 scholar), Trinity College, Cambridge (England) University, 1939; Master of Science, Manchester (England) University, 1959.
Senior science officer, Air Ministry, Ministry Supply, United Kingdom, 1939-1945;
fellow, director studies, lecturer physics, Trinity College, 1946-1949;
professor physics, Imperial College, London, England., 1950-1955;
Langworthy professor physics, director physical laboratories, U. Manchester, 1955-1960;
professor physics, Columbia University, 1960-1984;
professor emeritus, Columbia University, since 1985;
department chairman, Columbia University, 1963-1967. Royal Society-Leverhulme visiting professor, Andhra, India, 1967-1968. Racah visiting professor physics Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1973.
Balfour visiting professor of history of science Weizmann Institute, Israel, 1974, Board of Governors, since 1971. Royal Society.Rutherford Memorial Lecturer, Australia, 1989. Member Technology Assistance-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Team of United Nations to S. American, 1957.
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Served with Royal Air Force, 1944-1945. Fellow: Phi Beta Kappa, The Joseph Priestley Association (founder, convenor since 1986), New York Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, Royal Society London.
Son of David Isaac and Edith (Edlestein) D. M. Celia Ruth Toubkin, September 7, 1938. Children– Susan Danielle, Judith Rosalind, Amanda Jane, Cathryn Ann Julie.