Background
Coblentz was born on November 20, 1873, in North Lima, Ohio, the son of David Coblentz and Catherine Good. He was raised on a farm under relatively primitive conditions.
1910
Howard N. Potts Medal
1937
Rumford Gold Medal
1945
Ives Medal
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Coblentz graduated from the Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University) in 1900.
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Coblentz entered Cornell University, receiving a Master of Science degree in 1901 and a Ph.D. in 1903.
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Coblentz was born on November 20, 1873, in North Lima, Ohio, the son of David Coblentz and Catherine Good. He was raised on a farm under relatively primitive conditions.
Coblentz graduated from the Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University) in 1900. He then entered Cornell University, receiving a Master of Science degree in 1901 and a Ph.D. in 1903.
Upon graduation Coblentz accepted an appointment as a research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to work two years as an honorary fellow at Cornell. He began an extension of his thesis topic by measuring the spectral absorptions of thousands of molecular substances.
In 1904 Coblentz joined the staff of the National Bureau of Standards, where he continued his work on the infrared spectroscopy of various molecules. Moreover, he made numerous important contributions to other areas of radiation measurement. He was the first to determine accurately the radiation constants of a blackbody and thus to verify Planck’s law. In 1914 he used the Crossley reflector at the Lick Observatory to measure the heat radiated from 110 stars, as well as from planets and nebulae. Later he extended these measurements, using the facilities at Lowell Observatory and at Mount Wilson Observatory. The thermopiles he constructed at the National Bureau of Standards, sought after for their exceptional sensitivity, were used in studies significant to botany, physiology, and psychology, as well as to physics. However, he is known more for the studies he made with these instruments than for the instruments themselves.
Coblentz was chief of the radiometry section of the National Bureau of Standards from 1905 until 1945. He was widely honored for his pioneering contributions, which extended from infrared radiometry and spectroscopy through astrophysics to medical problems and ultraviolet therapy. The thoroughness and accuracy of his work established great confidence in him among physicists, so that it has been said that he was responsible for the adoption of radiometric standards, from the extreme ultraviolet to the far-infrared.
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Coblentz was above all persistent and hard working. He looked out for the education of future scientists by establishing a scholarship at Case.
On June 10, 1924, Coblentz married Catherine E. Cate in Washington D.C. They had two children who died as infants: Catharine Joan and David William.