User:Roperld

I was born on Friday, 13 December 1935 in Shattuck, Ellis County Oklahoma. I attended grade and high school at Arnett, Oklahoma, the county seat of Ellis County, graduating in 1954. I graduated with honors from Oklahoma Baptist University (Profile In Excellence award 1985), with majors in physics and mathematics and a minor in chemistry in 1958. I got the Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963. After two and one-half years as a postdoctoral appointtee at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, in Livermore, California, I taught two years at Kentucky Southern College in Louisville, Kentucky. I joined the physics faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (now Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) in 1967. I was Department Head from 1990-1995. In 1996 I took an early retirement option at half pay with no duties; I officially retired on 1 June 1998.

I did research and/or taught at the following times and locations:

* 1973-74: Research Physicist, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland * 1980-81: Visiting Professor, KEK National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan * 1983: Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby: Papua New Guinea * 1987-88: Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil