Werner Paul Wolf

Background

Wolf, Werner Paul was born on April 22, 1930 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Paul and Wilhelmina Wolf. came to the United States, 1963, naturalized, 1977.

Education

Bachelor, Oxford (England) University, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford (England) University, 1954; Master of Arts, Oxford (England) University, 1954; Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1965.

Career

Research fellow, Harvard University, 1956-1957; Fulbright travelling fellow, 1956-1957; Imperial Chemical Industries research fellow, University of Oxford, 1957-1959; university demonstrator, lecturer, University of Oxford, 1959-1962; lecturer, New College, 1957-1962; faculty, Yale University, since 1963; professor physics and applied science, Yale University, 1965-1976; director graduate studies department engineering and applied science, Yale University, 1973-1976; Becton professor, Yale University, 1976-1984; department chairman engineering and applied science, Yale University, 1976-1981; chairman council engineering, Yale University, 1981-1984; Raymond J. Wean professor engineering and applied science, professor physics, Yale University, since 1984; director undergraduate studies department applied physics, Yale University, 1987-1994; director graduate studies county engineering, Yale University, 1989; department chairman applied physics, Yale University, 1990-1997; chair commission on economics status of faculty, Yale University, 1990-1992; director educational affairs, since 1994. Consultant Dupont Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware, 1957, Hughes Aircraft, Culver City, California, 1957, General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, New York, 1960, Mullard Research laboratories, Salfords, England, 1961, International Business Machines Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1962-1966, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1966-1980, General Electric R & D Center, Schenectady,1966-1993, U. Bridgeport, 1995-1996, National U. Singapore, 1994-1996. Visiting professor Technische Hochschule, Munich, Germany, 1969.

Science Research Council senior visiting fellow University of Oxford, 1980, 84. Visiting fellow Corpus Christi College, 1984, 87. Member program committee Conference Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 1963, 65, 86, chairman, 1968, member of advisory committee, 1964-1965, 70-76, 85-88,chairman, 1972, steering committee, 1970-1971, conference general chairman, 1971.

Member organizing, program committees International Congress on Magnetism, 1967, international program committee, 1978-1979, planning committee, 1979-1985. Visiting physicist Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1966, 68, visiting senior physicist, 1970, research collaborator, 1972, 74, 75, 77, 80. Member visiting committee department physical/science U. Delaware, 1980, 84, 86.

Member North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Study Institute Program Committee, 1983, 85, international advisory board Yamada Conference XXV on Magnetic Phase Transitions,1990. Member board visitors Fairfield U. School Engineering, since 1996.

Achievements

• Werner Paul Wolf has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (life), American Physical Society (education committee 1977-1980, program director Industrial Graduate Intern Program 1978-1979, chairman fellowship committee, Division Condensed Matter Physics 1981-1983). Member Connecticut Academy Science and Engineering, Yale Science and Engineering Association (Meritorious Svc. award 1985).

Connections

Married Elizabeth Eliot, September 23, 1954. Children: Peter Paul, Mary-Anne Githa.

Father:

Paul Wolf

Mother:

Wilhelmina Wolf

Spouse:

Elizabeth Eliot

child:

Mary-Anne Githa Wolf

child:

Peter Paul Wolf