Scott, William T. (William Taussig), 1916-1999
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found:LCCN 59-5885: His The physics of electricity and magnetism, 1959(hdg.: Scott, William Taussig, 1916- )
found:LC data base, 12-20-83(hdg.: Scott, William Taussig, 1916-; usage: William T. Scott)
found:The Polanyi Society, via WWW, September 22, 2015(William T. Scott, 1916-1999; William Taussig Scott, a physicist and a friend and an important interpreter of the life and thought of Michael Polanyi, died February 22, 1999 at Friends House, Santa Rosa, California, twenty-three years to the day after the death of Michael Polanyi whose biography he worked on diligently for most of his last twenty years; he was born in 1916 in Yonkers, New York; Scott received his education at Scarborough School, Swarthmore College (B. A. 1937) and the University of Michigan (Ph. D. 1941); Bill became a Quaker at Swarthmore and was passionately committed to peace all of his life; he was a conscientious objector in World War II; later he served as a counselor in the Vietnam War and helped found the Northern Nevada Peace Center and Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace; Scott worked as a teacher of physics at Amherst College and Deep Springs Junior College for a few years before becoming a professor at Smith College from 1945-1961; he then moved to the University of Nevada, Reno and the Desert Research Institute where he taught and did research as an atmospheric physicist on how cloud droplets coalesce; for a decade, Bill Scott was Director of the Committee on Philosophy of Inquiry at the University of Nevada, Reno, a program that sponsored twenty interdisciplinary courses with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; in 1959-1960, Scott took a sabbatical at Yale University; he had a National Science Faculty Fellowship to work with Henry Margenau on quantum measurement theory, but he also undertook studies in theology with Robert Calhoun and other Yale Divinity School faculty; Scott spent a sabbatical in 1969-1970 in Oxford on a National Science Foundation grant studying and writing in the history and philosophy of science, working with Michael Polanyi and Rom Harre)
found:ancestry, September 22, 2015(William Taussig Scott; born March 16, 1916 in Yonkers, New York; died February 22. 1999 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California)
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2015-09-24:revised
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