Background
Webb, Watt Wetmore was born on August 27, 1927 in Kansas City, Missoury. Son of Watt Junior and Anna (Wetmore) Webb.
Webb, Watt Wetmore was born on August 27, 1927 in Kansas City, Missoury. Son of Watt Junior and Anna (Wetmore) Webb.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1947; Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955.
Research engineer, assistant director research, Union Carbide Metals Company, Niagara Falls, New York, 1947-1952, 55-61;
professor applied physics, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1961;
director School Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1983-1988;
director, National Institutes of Health-National Science Foundation Resource Biophysical Imaging and Opto-electronics, since 1988;
director Biophysics Program, National Institutes of Health-National Science Foundation Resource Biophysical Imaging and Opto-electronics, 1991-1994;
National Institutes of Health scholar-in-residence, Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study, 1988-1992. Member of advisory panels Materials Advisory Board, 1958-1959, 63-64, National Science Foundation, since 1974. Co-chair NAS panel on science interfaces and technical applications, Physics Through the 90s, 1983-1986.
Board directors, Executive Committee Cornell Research Foundation, since 1983.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society (chairman 1988-1989, Executive Committee division biological physics 1975-1977, Biological Physics prize 1991), American Institute Medical and Biological Engineers (founding 1992). Member National Academy Engineering, Biophysics Society (member county 1972-1975, 82-85), National Academy Sciences, American Society Cell Biology, American Society General Physiology, Optical Society American, Ithaca Yacht Club, New York Yacht Club.
Married Page Chapman, November, 1950. Children: Watt III, Spahr C., Bucknell C.