Talk:Hammar experiment

Hamar or Hammar?
His name according to this page and the cited journal article is Hammar, but the article title and several other places within the article uses Hamar. What's going on? mglg(talk) 18:44, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Redirect
This article offers no information beyond that given in Aether drag hypothesis. It shall be redirected to this article. --D.H (talk) 14:41, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Biographical information
The information that I have on Gustaf Hammar is fairly sparse.

Gustaf W. Hammar, M.S. University of Idaho, 1924, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1927. (He actually left the campus in August 1926, so I would presume that he finished his dissertation remotely?) His Ph.D. dissertation topic was titled "Magnetic Susceptibilities of Some Common Gases." He headed the physics department at the University of Idaho for 16 years. His achievements while at the University of Idaho include tests of the validity of special relativity. In 1946, he joined the Eastman Kodak Company as a senior supervising physicist with the Navy Ordnance Division. During this period with Kodak, he worked on various military projects including infrared photosensitive cells for use in night-vision gun sights and time-delayed fuses for use in unattended firearms intended to mislead the enemy into believing that large forces of men are concentrated in areas where they actually are not (patents 2547820, 2601135, 2917413, 2958802, 3063862, 3067330). In 1953, he was honored for his research in physics with fellowship in the American Physical Society. Died August 19, 1954.

Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 14:18, 16 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I came across a family history website that allowed me to fill in essential biographical details. See Gustaf Wilhelm Hammar for my completed biography. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 14:41, 22 December 2012 (UTC)