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Raymond Thayer Birge (March 13, 1887 – March 22, 1980) was an American physicist. [1] Career. Born in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of academic scientists, Birge obtained his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1913. In the same year he married Irene A. Walsh.
Dec 22, 2002 · Raymond Thayer Birge, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, died on March 22, 1980, at age ninety-three. Birge was a member of the physics faculty at Berkeley from 1918 until his retirement in 1955, and he was chairman of the department from 1932 to 1955.
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THAYER BIRGE, a member of the National Academy of Sciences from 1932, died in Berkeley, Cali-fornia, on March 22, 1980, at the age of ninety-three. Prom-inent in the field of physics from 1920 to 1955, he retired as chairman of the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, after a tenure of twenty-three years.
Physicist Raymond Thayer Birge (1887-1980) was chair of physics department, University of California-Berkeley and known for his work on the physical constants. He was the nephew of Edward Ashael Birge (see SIA Digital No. 2007-0227).
Abstract. Physicist (spectroscopy, statistics). On the physics faculty at Syracuse University, 1913-1918; University of California at Berkeley from 1918, Physics Department chair, 1933-1955; Chairman of the Committee on Physical Constants, National Research Council, 1930-1937.
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Raymond Thayer Birge was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 13, 1887, to John Thaddeus and Caroline S. (Raymond) Birge. He attended high school in Troy, New York. From there he went to the University of Wisconsin where he obtained his A.B. in 1909, his A.M. in 1910 and his Ph.D. in 1914.
